From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 13:33:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C2316A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:33:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from www.kukulies.org (www.kukulies.org [213.146.112.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BF7143D41 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:33:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: from www.kukulies.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.kukulies.org (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i9VDXE1w047727; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:33:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kuku@www.kukulies.org) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by www.kukulies.org (8.12.11/8.12.10/Submit) id i9VDXESq047726; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:33:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from kuku) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:33:13 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= Message-ID: <20041031133313.GA47679@kukulies.org> References: <200410301517.i9UFH46Z038706@www.kukulies.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 RC1 CD boot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:33:20 -0000 On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:24:55PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Christoph Kukulies writes: > > I was used to burn a disc1 with 5.x releases. Today I spent a couple > > of hours to no avail to get a disc1 booted. I burnt 2 times on > > different computers, finally I thought that perhaps the dis1 is no > > longer bootable and downloaded and burnt the 5.3-RC1-bootonly.iso > > image. Also boot failure. I cannot boot FreeBSD disc images any > > longer. > > If you want it fixed, you'll have to tell us what's broken. At the > very least, tell us what error message the BIOS prints when it tries > to boot from the CD. > > FWIW, I have booted a lot of i386 machines (most of them Dells) from > CD lately, and have not had any trouble. > > > (Computer is a Dell Inspiron 8000). > > > > What's happened? > > lemme guess, you forgot to hit F12 and tell the BIOS to boot from the > CD-ROM instead of the hard disk? Ah no :-) I chose CD booting exactly from that Boot menu but the CD rattled a bit but didn't spin up. I tried later from the 3 floppy set and after an initial I/O error on the CD I was able to install the system. It's been probably hardware at tolerance margins. Thanks. So you say it should boot from disc1. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org