Install on 486 with floppy reboots after mfsroot

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Brent Bowman wrote:

> I get to the end of step  "2.3.1.1 Booting for the i386™"  where it
> tells to boot the kernel and no matter what I do, it just reboots the
> computer!  Therefore it looses whatever it tried to put in memory and
> starts over again.    How can I get it to go to the kernel setup?
>
> My Hardware:
> IBM PS/Valuepoint 486  33MHz
> 8 MB RAM
^^^^^^^^^^

This is likely the problem.  The install needs more than 8M, somewhere
between 12 and 16M last I heard.

If it helps, I have a Valuepoint 486 DX2/66 with 32M of RAM that runs
4.8 flawlessly.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA