Date: Mon, 18 May 2026 15:31:59 -0700 From: David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pre-install Setup Questions Message-ID: <20055212-b66a-4bfb-a44d-552ace844e4b@holgerdanske.com> In-Reply-To: <1338542541.1997254.1779117838425@mail.yahoo.com> References: <1217898286.1570785.1778867757524.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <1217898286.1570785.1778867757524@mail.yahoo.com> <7e359bcb-94fc-4395-8599-943d42d62169@holgerdanske.com> <417407029.1814314.1779032915208@mail.yahoo.com> <86fr3qau67.fsf@ltc.des.dev> <2086036150.1826563.1779037719691@mail.yahoo.com> <2ec83095-cd09-4019-a6ae-128b0d509699@holgerdanske.com> <1338542541.1997254.1779117838425@mail.yahoo.com>
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On 5/18/26 08:23, John Gaskill wrote: > On Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 11:36:15 PM PDT, David Christensen wrote: >> Have you tried installing from the dvd1 ISO? Does it have everything >> you want? > > Yes, I did. Without success. > > I have the dvd drive selected as the boot drive until after the installation > is complete, and it is recognized by the system. > > So I contacted ASUS Support and altered the DVD hookup, and made all > the changes the support agent told me to make. I have checked the > UEFI status and everything is recognized as being there and functioning. > > After exiting the UEFI to boot, I submit the ADMIN PW, get about ten > seconds of black screen, the dvd lights up and rolls, but stops, and a > different font of text message appears, stating: > > "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media > in selected Boot device and press a key" > > Doing so produces a loop repeating the same message. > > A cold start, and sign in bypassing the UEFI produces the same result. > > IIRC the .iso type files are supposed to be self-starting in a boot use. > > I am also going to take this up with ASUS support today A bad DVD could produce those results. A bad DVD drive could produce those results. Try computing the checksum of the FreeBSD dvd1 DVD without mounting it and compare the computed checksum to the published checksum of the FreeBSD dvd1 ISO. Try booting a known good bootable DVD. Try booting the FreeBSD dvd1 DVD in a system that has a known good DVD drive. If you burned the FreeBSD memstick image to a USB drive, you could boot that and it should have a rescue shell that you could use for trouble-shooting. Davidhome | help
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