[luau] Installing BSD on Dell P75t boxes

[Brian Low]

Aloha Al,
  I have install 4.5 and 5.0 on a dell P166 and P100.  I have had no issues.  Are the Hard drive(s) been set to master/slave/single?  This sounds more like the boot sector is not writing to the front of the drive.  In a 2 drive system the root (/) needs to put on the Master drive. Is the BTX boot loader being put on the master drive?  Are you putting a 2nd boot loader (BTX) on the 2nd drive?

Thanks,
Brian
 

> al plant wrote:
> > 
> > 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?
> > >
> > ##########
> > 
> > I have a feeling that it may be the bios setup not recognizing the hd.
> > It finds the memory, keyboard ,mouse then stops before the hd is
> > detected with the line:
> > 
> > Insert  bootable media in the  appropriate drive.
> 
> ###########
> 
> Hmm...
> 
> I just flashed the new updated bios and that is not the problem. It
> still wont boot. 
> Same error.
> 
> 
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