Subject: Re: NetBSD-2.0 Install CD does not boot on Dell
To: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
From: Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/21/2004 15:35:38
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 08:07:26AM -0600, James Chacon wrote:
> If you booted it using the floppy images from the 2.0 release, thats the
> exact same bootloader used on the cdrom. (It's just booting the big floppy
> image)
The problem is (I think) that the BIOS does not even manahe to load the bootloader
from the CD. Beofre getting the bootloader prompt, the BIOS prints DISKERR on the
screen and that's it (I first thought the CD was badly burned, but the CD is just
fine).
Feico.