From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 30 23:56:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx-a.qnet.com (mx-a.qnet.com [209.221.198.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E95737B43C for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cello.qnet.com (root@cello.qnet.com [209.221.198.10]) by mx-a.qnet.com (8.9.1a/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA03603; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from STORK (56k-socal-00-02.dial.qnet.com [209.221.198.17]) by cello.qnet.com (8.9.0/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA19020; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:54:27 -0700 (PDT) From: "stork" To: , Subject: RE: Start up with SCSI Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 23:47:42 -0700 Message-ID: <002c01c01317$5c6e1e30$11c6ddd1@STORK> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.5600 In-reply-to: <83.1ebe0d.26df4b00@aol.com> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It sounds like something may have come adrift in your CMOS. If it is an Award BIOS, you hit delete as it is starting to boot. Check that it is set to boot on C or A,C (with no floppy in the drive) and that the IDE is properly configured. Paul Smith > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of > SoftGuitar@aol.com > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 10:46 PM > To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Start up with SCSI > > > I had my computer loaded with Free BSD OS 4.0. It worked for a > while and now > when I try to turn on my computer and run BSD it goes to the boot > prompt and > tells me it could not load with floppy, CDROM or > SCSI...........this messages > comes out of no where since it was never loaded with a SCSI but > an IDE Hard > drive..... > How can I get it to load properly.......It really bothers me because I > want to work with BSD.. > Jesse > SoftGuitar@aol.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message