RE: booting from cd-rom

John Baldwin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 17-Oct-2002 Alex Hollerith wrote:
> hi,
> 
> i'm trying to boot and install freebsd 4.7 from cd-rom on my laptop.
> the loader stops with "can't work out...".
> 
> is there a way (e.g. by setting loader parameters) to get things
> going or should i just give up?

Erm, it looks like the BIOS is broken and doesn't support booting
via the old floppy-emulation mode properly.  You will have to boot
off floppies for now.

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