From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 31 13:25:06 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 6E62616A4CE for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:25:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C096843D39 for ; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 13:25:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 2D6B05310; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:25:04 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id D5A6F530A; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:24:55 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 9DFE0B85E; Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:24:55 +0100 (CET) To: Christoph Kukulies References: <200410301517.i9UFH46Z038706@www.kukulies.org> From: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:24:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <200410301517.i9UFH46Z038706@www.kukulies.org> (Christoph Kukulies's message of "Sat, 30 Oct 2004 17:17:04 +0200 (CEST)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=no version=2.64 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 13:25:06 -0000 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? DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no