Thanks all for your replies, For future peoples reference. I managed to 
scrounge some more ram so it had 16 instead of 8 meg, and it boots
prpoerly now. I had forgotten sysinstall needed more than 8MB of ram. I
thrown off because it was just rebooting instead of printing an error.

 - Fred

"Frederick Bowes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given
> (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the
> mfsroot
> floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then
> reboots.
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