Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 12:31:28 -0500 (EST) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Aaron Nadeau <fallinangl@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: why won't this thing work? Message-ID: <XFMail.981204123128.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <19981204170849.15612.rocketmail@send105.yahoomail.com>
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On 04-Dec-98 Aaron Nadeau wrote: > hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD on two OLD 386 computers. Both > of them are using Pheonix BIOS 1.10. I got them for free from my > school because I can't sepn money on a new unix box. If you could > help me get these things running I would really appricate it. > > The problem I am running into is this: > > I boot from the floppy and it all goes well, but before the kernel > options menu comes up it reboots it self and goes through it all > agian. Please help. This may sound silly, but make sure that the floppy is set up correctly in BIOS. Just this morning, I had an old 486 reboot constantly at that point as well becuase the person who gave me the computer had the 3.5 floppy set up as a 5.25 1.2 Meg floppy. Once I realized that, it worked just fine... --- Patrick S. Gardella Director of Web Development The Creative Group 1-800-804-0783 ext 29 606-858-8029 (fax) http://www.cre8tivegroup.com PGP Key ID 0xEE2D47A9 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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