what can i do with a 486?

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 22 16:23:01 UTC 2007


On Sunday 21 January 2007 12:55, Jason Hensler wrote:
> 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.

Use boot0cfg to turn off 'packet' mode in boot0.

-- 
John Baldwin


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