what can i do with a 486?

[Jason Hensler]

It seems to be that the motherboard probably does not support booting
from cd as was common with older systems. A side note, I got the same
error on a p4 board yesterday because there was not boot device (bad
mbr). I would try a boot floppy to get the system to access the cd-rom
or install freebsd on the hard drive from another machine and swap it
to the 486.

On 1/21/07, deeptech71 at gmail.com <deeptech71 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 5.1-RELEASE tested, yielded the same result: "Missing operating system". The
> installation can boot on a new machine, but can not boot on the 486. Seems
> like the source of the error is the capabilitiy of the mainboard. I've given
> up. FreeBSD will not work on this noob machine. Next: lots of floppy OSs.
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