On 4/4/07, Kamil Monticolo <
birkoff@...> wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 06:23:54 -0700 (PDT)
> sweetnsourbkr <
sweetnsourbkr@...> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying into install OpenBSD 4.0 onto my laptop. It's a Pentium 3 1.13
> > MHz with 768MB RAM.
> >
> > I burned an install CD following the installation instructions. I buned the
> > cd40.iso first, started a multisession CD. Then afterwards, burned the rest
> > of the packages and finished the multisession CD. This setup boots fine on
> > my desktop system.
> >
> > On my laptop, however, it reads the CD, but it does not boot, and goes
> > straight into the hard disk boot (Lilo in my case).
> >
> > I've tried disabling hard drive boot, enabling the floppy disk, enabling
> > superdisk boot, updated the BIOS to the latest release, all to no avail.
> >
> > Does anyone know how I can boot onto my Thinkpad? Any help would be greatly
> > appreciated. :)
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> >
>
> Maybe try to burn it on cd-rw in single-session mode or on native cd-r disc. It should works fine.
>
>
If you have another machine, try to netboot it.
you just need a bootp/dhcp server and a tftp server
with the files pxeboot and bsd.rd.
If you only have win32 machines, tftpd32 makes a
nice dhcp & tftp server (and it's open source).
--
Vincent GROSS
