Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 10:03:18 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@sr.hp.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Michael Pearce <mpearce@coreth.com> Subject: Re: CDROM Boot Failure? Message-ID: <199910131703.KAA23031@mina.sr.hp.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 12 Oct 1999 17:38:56 CDT."
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Michael Pearce <mpearce@coreth.com> wrote:
> Is there a known problem with booting the 3.3 CDROM's, or did I just get a
> bad disk? My 3.1 and 3.2 CD's boot fine.
There's a known problem where 3.3 CDROM's don't boot on some (all?)
IDE CDROM drives. It'll boot fine off SCSI CDROM drives, though. The
workaround is to create the boot floppies, boot off them, and then
install from CDROM.
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Darryl Okahata
darrylo@sr.hp.com
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