From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 23 02:32:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA03300 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:32:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA03175 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA04037; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:31:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 02:31:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Dennis Schwarz cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Continuous rebooting! In-Reply-To: <358F06BD.645D@123.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Dennis Schwarz wrote: > I want to run FreeBSD on my 386, but I wanted to make sure FreeBSD would > detech my hardware, etc. I was on my other computer, and I downloaded > the boot disk, and put it on a floppy using the quickstart instructions. > That went smoothly. I put the disk in my 386 and rebooted it. It started > reading the disk, then rebooted, at first I thought it to be normal, > until it started doing a loop of reboots. I read the FAQ reasons/fixes > for it, but they didn't apply to me. I took the same boot disk and it > booted fine on my i586. Why does it keep rebooting on my 386 ? Because you have 4MB of RAM when 5MB is required to install? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message