From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 14:37:39 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 8BA5A16A4CE for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:37:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from amonsul.esperi.net (amonsul.esperi.net [194.216.214.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5552243D46 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:37:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicolai@esperi.org) Received: from nicolai by amonsul.esperi.net with local (Exim 4.21) id 1B6H0E-000J2g-Np for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:37:38 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16482.3506.550989.340221@amonsul.esperi.net> Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:37:38 +0000 X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.3.1 From: Nicolai E M Plum To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Sender: Nicolai E M Plum Subject: 5.2.1 boot fails; "Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor" 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: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 22:37:39 -0000 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