Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 20:53:34 +0000 From: "clayton rollins" <crollins666@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: bsd@agileemmy.com Subject: Re: freebsd on an old compaq Message-ID: <Sea1-F129Yx3G5aYY61000001e9@hotmail.com>
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> >On Tue, 6 May 2003 12:45:39 "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> wrote: > > > > Charley <bsd@agileemmy.com> 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 > Hi Charley, On one of the older compaqs I recently worked on, there was no BIOS setting for the boot device. Instead the system looked ahead at the disks to find bootable disks and booted them in the order: cd-rom, floppy, HD. If that's the case, just put it in the drive and boot away. (Note that the disk has to be present during POST for this to work; put it in and reboot.) Peace, Clayton _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail
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