From owner-freebsd-qa Fri Jan 11 20:25:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from cx587235-b.chnd1.az.home.com (cx587235-b.chnd1.az.home.com [24.251.188.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCEA37B41F for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:25:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from whale.home-net (whale [192.168.1.2]) by cx587235-b.chnd1.az.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g0C4PPM04236 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:25:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from johnjen@reynoldsnet.org) Received: (from jjreynold@localhost) by whale.home-net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0C4PPh00568; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:25:25 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from johnjen@reynoldsnet.org) From: John Reynolds MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15423.47797.19236.686113@whale.home-net> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 21:25:25 -0700 To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Subject: new CD boot image testing X-Mailer: VM 6.88 under Emacs 20.7.1 Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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