Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:37:38 +0000 From: Nicolai E M Plum <nicolai-freebsd@esperi.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: 5.2.1 boot fails; "Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor" Message-ID: <16482.3506.550989.340221@amonsul.esperi.net>
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Hi I am having problems booting FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE on a system I have. Booting from CD gives me: ---- [other messages from the BIOS] CD Loader 1.01 Building the boot loader arguments Read Error: 0x01 Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor ---- Booting from floppies works OK. The same happens when trying to boot a CD of 5.1-RC1 that I happen to still have around. 4.9-RELEASE boots fine from CD. Hardware is an older Dell Pentium Pro system, with a Samsung SM-532 DVD-ROM CD-RW drive. Any ideas why this happens? I've worked around it, but it's a bit awkward. I can't find any details of why it happens in searching mailing lists. Thanks Nicolai
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