Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:25:25 -0700 From: John Reynolds <johnjen@reynoldsnet.org> To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: new CD boot image testing Message-ID: <15423.47797.19236.686113@whale.home-net>
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Earlier today I reported that booting the new CD boot image on my Dell Latitude CPx-J 650 laptop didn't work. John B. asked me if it had a "made for Windows 2000/NT/ME" sticker on the laptop. Indeed it does. And, indeed I do have a bootable copy of Windows 2000 to try. Indeed the bloody laptop doesn't even boot this disc! It goes straight to the boot0 boot manager selection from the HDD. Something's definitely "up" with my h/w .... I've checked all the relevent BIOS settings and all seems to be in order. The CD drive is the first thing that it's supposed to check for booting before the HDD even but no dice. The strange thing is that when booting into FreeBSD or Windows the CD-ROM seems just fine--I can read from it, mount /cdrom, etc. No problem (can't say that rules out a h/w problem altogether but ...). So, I'm afraid without further screwing around to figure out what demons have possessed my laptop I can't make any conclusions on the CPx-J series. My best guess is that it would definitely work because of the cute Windoze sticker present. Anybody else got a CPx-J from Dell and can boot off this new image (or off any CD for that matter)? I'm using BIOS image A14 (and am checking for updates at this moment). -Jr -- John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen@reynoldsnet.org http://www.reynoldsnet.org/ Senior CAD Engineer, WCCG, Intel Corporation jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com Running FreeBSD since 2.1.5-RELEASE. FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! "Unix is user friendly, it's just particular about the friends it chooses." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message
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