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' > > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > | YONNY CARDENAS B. | Tels: +57 1 3451543, 3451554 | > | | 3451565, 2176251 ext. 16 | > | Opus Ingenieria | Fax : +57 1 3458343 | > | Calle 61 # 5-44 Piso 3 | E-mail: y-carden@uniandes.edu.co | > | Santafe de Bogota D.C.,Colombia | ycardena@yahoo.com | > +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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