Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 12:45:39 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "Charley" <bsd@agileemmy.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on an old Compaq Message-ID: <20202.63.104.35.130.1052243139.squirrel@email.polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20030506173547.M36636@agileemmy.com> References: <20030506173547.M36636@agileemmy.com>
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Charley said: > I recently won a Compaq ProLiant 5000R in an auction on Ebay. It > arrived yesterday and now I want to put FreeBSD on it. Unfortunately, > I can't seem to find a way to cause the system to boot from the CD and > booting from the floppy returns an "Unexpected EOF" on the kernel > (kern.flp). Is there something else that I need? > Check the BIOS for boot order or boot sequence and see if a CDROM device is in the list. If it is, make it the first boot device and re-try. As for the floppy, I've seen the "Unexpected EOF" error because of old or bad floppy media. Try brand-new floppy disks. -- Regards, Doug
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