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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.mathworks.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-feed2.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!ulowell.uml.edu!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: Re: boot floppy Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:23:07 -0400 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 16 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970610222142.29990A-100000@shell.wizvax.net> References: <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 In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.970610220337.29929A-100000@shell.wizvax.net> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42722 > 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. ;) In case this is relivant, the boot screens report that the system has Plug and Play. I know that this often causes problems for Unix. If this is the problem, please let me know where I should begin looking in order to find a solution. Thanks again, Jaime