From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri May 11 1:20: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from l04.research.kpn.com (l04.research.kpn.com [139.63.192.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE47B37B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 01:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from K.J.Koster@kpn.com) Received: by l04.research.kpn.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 10:20:04 +0100 Message-ID: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9BB7@l04.research.kpn.com> From: "Koster, K.J." To: "'Thompson, Scott'" , 'lists' Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Compaq Presario 486sx Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 10:20:04 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 ================================================ You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message