From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Apr 20 23:01:45 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD4FCD48EC1 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:01:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from holgerdanske.com (holgerdanske.com [184.105.128.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "holgerdanske.com", Issuer "holgerdanske.com" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9DF19FF6 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:01:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dpchrist@holgerdanske.com) Received: from 99.100.19.101 ([99.100.19.101]) by holgerdanske.com with ESMTPSA (ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:TLSv1.2:Kx=ECDH:Au=RSA:Enc=AESGCM(128):Mac=AEAD) (SMTP-AUTH username dpchrist@holgerdanske.com, mechanism PLAIN) for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:01:36 -0700 Subject: Re: Unable to install FreeBSD-11.0-i386 on a elderly desktop To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <57a5b556523a58a08e75e14f1485e8e2.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> From: David Christensen Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 16:02:36 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 23:01:45 -0000 On 04/20/2017 02:27 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > On 2017-04-20 23:11, James B. Byrne wrote: >> I am trying to install FreeBSD-11.0 on a older model HP Compaq DC7700S >> desktop. I downloaded FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso, ran >> sha256sum and verified the image and then created a bootable DVD from >> the downloaded iso. >> >> I put this into the DVD drive of the unit and booted. it initially >> brought up the boot menu and I proceeded through the install process >> selecting guided zfs for the filesystem. However, half way through the >> transfer of kernel.txz I began to receive media errors. I also began >> to see the message cdrom error 5 unretryable. >> >> After several retries with new media I now cannot get the cdrom boot >> menu to display at all. What i get instead is a message on the >> console that 'Can't find boot/zfsloader' followed by: >> >> FreeBSD/x86 boot >> Default: zroot/ROOT/default:/boot/kernel/kernel >> boot: >> \ >> Can't find /boot/kernel/kernel > > First thing I would have done is to clean the laser lens in the cd drive... +1, if the lens is readily accessible. It sounds like the optical drive is failing. But, boot the CD in another machine and do an install just to make sure. I usually replace failing optical drives, but I loath spending money on obsolete hardware (such as IDE). One of my Pentium 4 machines is lacking an optical drive. My solution was to download, burn, and install using the USB flash installer: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/ISO-IMAGES/11.0/FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img David