how to boot system?

hirohitosan

hirohitosan

Hi there
I want to try FreeBSD on an old Toshiba Tecra 510. I put a new 40GB HDD and prepare flopies and try ro start but the system doesn't boot. I seems that it doesn't load the BIOS. After Power ON it checks the memory and that's it. Nothing happen. I tried others boot flopies (Linux, Win98) but still not boot. I changed back the old HDD (2GB with Win98SE) but still not boot.

Where is located the BIOS?
Could the BIOS be destroyed?
Can I revive it?

thanks
 
Thanks SIrDice. I read that manual. The problem is that I cannot get into BIOS. For example is pointed there F10 for entering in BIOS config, but my comp. doesn't get to that point. Either F10 or other Fx or Del I press during restarting nothing happen. The system is frozen after "Memory initializing"
Where BIOS actually is stored?
 
Code: 
 ESC then F1 or F2
For newer laptops:
Code: 
1. Turn on computer by Holding down power button while pressing the ESC key.
The machine will beep, then display:
Check System, then press [F1] key.
2. Release ESC key
3. Press F1 key
 
thanks guys!

finally I succeed to boot and install.
The problem is that I cannot use the network. I have a PCMCIA Adapter D-link DFE-650TXD and it was not recognized. On dmesg output I have nothing like pccard0, pccard1 etc on devices like pcic0. In fact there is no pcic0 informations like it said here.
Should I install something else?
 
Not sure but this line in your dmesg

Code: 
 pnpbios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum

leads me to think that you've got some problems with the bios and it's not reading the adapter.
 
roddierod said:
leads me to think that you've got some problems with the bios and it's not reading the adapter.
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on this computer was running Win98SE and the network adapter works fine.

it is something related to drivers?
 
From your posts, it seems to be more of a hardware problem. This machie seems to be fairly old. If Win98 is still on the machine boot into it a double check that the card is still working.

If that goes well, then maybe it's a driver issue.
 
roddierod said:
If Win98 is still on the machine boot into it a double check that the card is still working.
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I installed win98se and the card is running well.
does anyone has any idea how to enable PCMCIA?
 
fronclynne said:
You might try booting with ACPI disabled.
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How?
At the boot time I have
Code: 
1. Boot FreeBSD [default]
2. Boot FreeBSD with ACPI enabled
3. Boot FreeBSD in safe Mode
4. Boot FreeBSD in single user mode
5. Boot FreeBSD with verbose logging
which one to chose?
 
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