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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news-xfer.cybernet.dk!baron.netcom.net.uk!netcom.net.uk!news.wizvax.net!shell.wizvax.net!jaime From: Jaime Kikpole <jaime@shell.wizvax.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd Subject: boot floppy Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:07:17 -0400 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 12 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970610220337.29929A-100000@shell.wizvax.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell.wizvax.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42721 I just bought a K5 today, with a VX mother board. I made a boot disk for FreeBSD and tried booting, but it gets as far as "Verifying DMI Pool Data..." and hangs. With a NetBSD boot disk, it just boots from the hard drive into MS-DOS. Linux does the same as FreeBSD. This message seems to be coming from the BIOS, because it gives that message when I intentionally boot to MS-DOS, too. Is there anything that you guys could recommend so that I could get to using a real OS. ;) Thanks a LOT in advance, Jaime