> > "Frederick Bowes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given
> >> (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the
> >> mfsroot
> >> floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then
> >> reboots.
>
Thanks all for your replies, For future peoples reference. I managed to
scrounge some more ram so it had 16 instead of 8 meg, and it boots
prpoerly now. I had forgotten sysinstall needed more than 8MB of ram. I
thrown off because it was just rebooting instead of printing an error.
- Fred
"Frede
Almost every time I see a reboot problem as you describe it is
hardware. Not always but 99 out of 100. Reseat all the mem and the
cards. Usually it is bad mem for me, but power supplies, mother boards
have also been the culprit. Having said all that It does seem to be a
bit lean on the mem size
"Frederick Bowes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I was hoping to try out FreeBSD on an old machine I have been given
> (Pentium 120, 514MB HD, 8mb ram) and it reboots after loading the mfsroot
> floppy disk. You insert the disk, it goes /|\|/ for a while then reboots.
>
> What might cause this pro
