From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 28 23:45:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sanson.reyes.somos.net (freyes.static.inch.com [216.223.199.224]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3B337B43F for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 23:45:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tomasa (tomasa.reyes.somos.net [10.0.0.11]) by sanson.reyes.somos.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id CAA50454 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:37:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from fran@reyes.somos.net) Message-Id: <200008290637.CAA50454@sanson.reyes.somos.net> From: "Francisco Reyes" To: "FreeBSD questions" Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 02:46:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Francisco Reyes" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 98 (4.10.2222) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Boot floppies not booting Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I just bought a computer without CDrom. I made the kernel and mfsroot floppies on another machine. When I put the kernel floopy on the new computer it gives a "disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter". I tried the same kernel floopy on another machine and it boots. I also tried a windows 98 boot floppy on the new machine and it booted ok. The specs of the new machine are: TyanS1598 motherboard Teac floppy Also the network card tries to boot prior to the floopy, but it eventually times out. That card is an Intel Pro 100+. Is there a way to disable this card from trying to boot? Although I am not sure that card has anything to do with the floppy not been recognized. francisco Moderator of the Corporate BSD list http://www.egroups.com/group/BSD_Corporate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message