Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:33:13 +0100 From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@kukulies.org> To: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 RC1 CD boot? Message-ID: <20041031133313.GA47679@kukulies.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpwtx7aul4.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200410301517.i9UFH46Z038706@www.kukulies.org> <xzpwtx7aul4.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:24:55PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Christoph Kukulies <kuku@www.kukulies.org> 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? Ah no :-) I chose CD booting exactly from that Boot menu but the CD rattled a bit but didn't spin up. I tried later from the 3 floppy set and after an initial I/O error on the CD I was able to install the system. It's been probably hardware at tolerance margins. Thanks. So you say it should boot from disc1. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org
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