Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:20:04 +0100 From: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> To: "'Thompson, Scott'" <Scott_Thompson@quakeroats.com>, 'lists' <lists@vivdev.com> Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Compaq Presario 486sx Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9BB7@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Dear All,
>
> 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.
>
Alternately you could install the disk in another machines, load FreeBSD and
then put the disk back into the presario.
In my deskpro the video card (Matrox) is not supported by XFree86, due to
Compaq using non-standard addresses. But then, who's going to run X11 on a
486 nowadays? :-)
Kees Jan
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