Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 22:33:01 -0500 From: "Thompson, Scott" <Scott_Thompson@quakeroats.com> To: 'lists' <lists@vivdev.com>, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Compaq Presario 486sx Message-ID: <B7FD423C11D3D2118A880008C7C5A11B0719502A@chintmg5.corp.quakeroats.com>
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i have an old deskpro 486 which works fine and a newer presario with a pentium 166. the bios on the presario will only boot from a disk with dos on it. that is how it determines which disk to boot from (and i thought windoze was dumb). you may need to install dos on a small sacrificial partition (wish i had the diskettes) or boot from a live file system cd, interrupt the boot and change active kernels on the fly. the second choice is not an option if your box will not boot from cd, but if it does not, it may be using an older bios. i do the kernel swap since i did not realize i had this problem when i dedicated my whole drive to freebsd. if you encounter this problem, i can send you the specifics of the kernel swapping procedure. be sure you know the name of your root slice (you will need it). since i will only need to boot my machine if the ups runs down, the awkward boot is not a problem. your mileage may vary. also, if i were you, i would throw an overdrive processor in there if possible so you have floating point support and a little more horsepower. my 486's are now all 66mhz overdrives or better. it helps. also, i would want at least 16meg of memory in there, though i have installed and run with 8 using 3.2 release. -----Original Message----- From: lists [mailto:lists@vivdev.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 7:53 PM To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Compaq Presario 486sx Just picked up a 66 mhz compaq presario 486sx to boot from floppy. Currently has win95 on it. Any advice or warnings? Anything peculiar about loading freebsd on this type of machine? Thanks alot! thanks, chris lists@vivdev.com _____________________________________________ /"\ ASCII Ribbon campaign against E-Mail \ / in gratuitous HTML and Microsoft X proprietary formats. / \ Post no attachments to the lists! _______________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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