Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 11:14:34 +0000 From: Nicolai E M Plum <nicolai-freebsd@esperi.org> To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1 boot fails; "Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor" Message-ID: <16482.48922.657420.534911@amonsul.esperi.net> In-Reply-To: <40621CE9.6030204@alumni.rice.edu> References: <16482.3506.550989.340221@amonsul.esperi.net> <40621CE9.6030204@alumni.rice.edu>
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Jon Noack writes: > Nicolai E M Plum writes: > > Booting from CD gives me: > > ---- > > [other messages from the BIOS] > > CD Loader 1.01 > > > > Building the boot loader arguments > > Read Error: 0x01 > > Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor > > ---- > The 5.x bootable install CDs no longer use floppy-emulation mode. The > change was made because some newer machines do not support this > emulation mode. However, older machines may not be able to boot CDs in > "native" (non-emulation) mode. We can't support everybody, so we > support the new machines. Ah, fair enough; I can understand that. > In many cases a BIOS update will fix this, so you might check for that. Will do. And now there's an archived answer to search for in the mailing lists :) Perhaps a document maintainer could add it to the Handbook as a gotcha. Thanks Nicolai
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