[luau] Installing BSD on Dell P75t boxes

[al plant]

MonMotha wrote:
> 
> I've never done it with BSD, but I've had various forms of Linux on
> older Dell comps.  All worked fine, however these were "general purpose"
> comps.
> 
> If the BIOS needs to boot from a DOS bootsector (some newer Compaqs do
> it seems)...a way to get around this is to do somethign like load DOS
> then use loadlin to boot Linux from DOS.  I'm not sure if BSD has an
> equivilent, but it usually works for me with Linux.
> 
> Where does the bootup procedure stop btw?
> 
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I have a feeling that it may be the bios setup not recognizing the hd.
It finds the mempry, keyboard ,mouse then stops before the hd is
detected with the line:

Insert  bootable media in the  appropriate drive. 

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