From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 31 18:20:55 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2EA716A403 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:20:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62F4A13C47E for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:20:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from deeptech71@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id o2so238778uge for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:20:51 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=OEDoRbvxFzLKyvXWm+Yb2MucNv0mqJOyF82FOwiTRAhLzwLkivj+Dizcm0P9dwBp/pP7aVGHNE/tq18LjyJL07hcPEOUJfRnSafNLql3qx/d1szH2RduVLLMwrRlSNKdMoiHafabd1QATiA0pIcbxe2cbX1JgMC206oOth/JWN0= Received: by 10.66.243.2 with SMTP id q2mr1382134ugh.1170267651055; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:20:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.123.111? ( [84.0.108.160]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id k1sm1583663ugf.2007.01.31.10.20.49; Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:20:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <45C0DE0A.4060405@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:20:58 +0100 From: deeptech71@gmail.com User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <45B3A409.40005@gmail.com> <45BD3604.2060802@gmail.com> <45BD5D5E.6080303@gmail.com> <200701301529.52365.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200701301529.52365.jhb@freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: what can i do with a 486? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:20:55 -0000 John Baldwin wrote: > > Did you install boot0? (The MBR boot block that will list the partitions?) > If so, you need to use boot0cfg to turn off 'packet' mode to instruct boot0 > to not use LBA. I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread. You can do > this by booting the disk up in the newer machine after the install and > running boot0cfg, then moving the disk over to the 486 machine. > hmmm