Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello I have been investigating (I have read all freebsd manuals and search on the internet) and my old pentium machine has got the bad CMD 640 disk controller. FreeBSD 5.3 says that it does NOT support it. I think that they have removed support for it in the 5.x versions. I do not know why I can not even see the kernel boot, I think it should work until it mounts the first filesystem.
FreeBSD 4.10 boot floppies go ok and reach the sysinstall screen.
FreeBSD 5.2.1 floppies boot, kernel boots but hangs when mounting the filesystems.
FreeBSD 5.3 does not boot the kernel at all and suddenly reboots before I see any kernel messages.
It seems that it is good time to throw away this old machine.... :-(
I will download the full 4.10 installation CDROM and we will see if I can install the full system. I have been reading too much FreeBSD manuals in the last 4 days and I am getting mad :-/
Anyway, It works very well in my AMD 1.2GHz Athlon and I am happy with FreeBSD. It comes with very clear documentation and you can get it work quickly, if you came from the Debian Linux world.
PS: I am surprised that only one person answered my email. Did I ask my question in the wrong mailing-list? If so, please tell me where I should post it.
Thank you. Ramiro. Ramiro Aceves wrote:
Hello dear FreeBSD friends.
I am Ramiro from Spain.This is my first post to the list. I am a regular Debian GNU/Linux user, but I have been tempted to try FreeBSD. I have installed it successfully on my 1200 MHz Athlon computer booting from the CDROM drive and I like it, but I can not install it in an old Pentium 100 MHz fujitsu computer. This old machine can not boot from the CDROM, so I tried to boot with the floppies. I have prepared the 3 floppies several times and I stil can not install it.
I boot with the "boot.flp" floppy ok. I insert "kern1.flp" and it loads ok. I insert "kern2.flp" and it loads ok. I was prompted to insert "boot.flp" floppy again and it shows the logo screen with the booting options. If I choose the default (with no acpi), the computers shudenly restarts without being able to see any message. The remaining options cause the same machine reboot. I can enter into the loader prompt.
¿What can I do?
Any help will be apreciated.
Sorry for my bad english. Ramiro.
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