On 22/06/2008, at 6:51 PM, STeve Andre' wrote:
On Sunday 22 June 2008 02:39:02 Gabri Mate wrote:
Dear List,
i would like to install OpenBSD 4.3 on an old Pentium MMX machine.
The
BIOS can boot off from a cd, but it simply refuses to boot the OBSD
installation media. It checks the cd, waits a few seconds, then just
goes on.
Any suggestions?
--
Gabri Mate
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I believe there was a known problem with the stock 4.3 CD and
really old
machines, and I think it got fixed, which of course doesn't help you.
I'd create a boot floppy, and do an FTP install.
--STeve Andre'
Wasn't that 4.2? From http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html
003: CD BOOT FAILURE ON OLDER COMPUTERS :
October 30, 2007 i386 only
Some older BIOSes are unable to boot CD1
(ie. the commercial release sold by the project, not the CD
images available on the net). A workaround using CD2
(amd64 architecture) is as follows.
(An amd64 machine is NOT required for this to work.)
[etc.]
(This does not help the OP, either ...)
