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Date:      Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:29:09 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Yonny Cardenas B." <ycardena@yahoo.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Can't work out which disk we are booting from 
Message-ID:  <200009251929.e8PJT9A13950@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:35:02 CDT." <39CF70A6.A7828890@yahoo.com> 

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Booting from CDROM is not (yet) supported on these systems.  You will 
have to boot from floppy disk (you can install from CDROM OK).

> I apologize for ask this in the hackers list, but I have looked in the
> history mail list in the FreeBSD web site and I haven't found nothing
> similar.
> 
> I can't start to install FreeBSD 4.0 or FreeBSD 3.8. 
> 
> It says: "Can't work which disk we are booting from."
> 
> I have a IBM PC 300GL, with Pentiun II (333Mhz), Ram 64Mb and a H.D. IDE
> of 3228Mb.
> 
> When I start to install FreeBSD 2.5 all run fine, and the installation
> is finished without problems.
> 
> Can I do?
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> The following are the complete messages:
> 
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 101
> Console: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS drive A: is disk0
> BIOS drive C: is disk1
> BIOS 639kB/64501kB available memory
> 
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader Revision 0.7
> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
> Guessed BIOS device 0x8b no found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
> Booting [kernel]
> can't load 'kernel'
> 
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