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From: Duane Hill <d.hill@yournetplus.com>
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Subject: CD Won't Boot Properly - External Sony VGP-UDRW1 Drive
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I have a new Sony Vaio TZ2500 I'm attempting to load FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. 
Whenever the CD starts to boot, the screen just starts showing what 
appears to be memory dumps. If you stare at the screen long enough, you 
can tell there are two columns of eight hex pairs. They flash by so fast 
you can't hardly make out what is being displayed.

Does anyone know what might be going on and how to get the CD to boot 
properly?

-d