From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 13 23:50:45 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E98EB16A468 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A48E613C458 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:50:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from [85.172.12.130] (helo=localhost.my.domain) by services.ipt.ru with esmtpa (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1J2xpD-0007If-4E; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:50:43 +0300 To: "Bin Cheng" References: <05AEAB71F81AD8408A534E2038630CC203A849FC@anakin.ironportsystems.com> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 02:50:15 +0300 In-Reply-To: <05AEAB71F81AD8408A534E2038630CC203A849FC@anakin.ironportsystems.com> (Bin Cheng's message of "Wed\, 12 Dec 2007 16\:13\:12 -0800") Message-ID: <88621832@ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: (no subject) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:50:46 -0000 On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:13:12 -0800 Bin Cheng wrote: > System can't boot from 7.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly cd-rom. I downloaded Are you sure you want to bbot from -bootonly CD? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html#AEN3258 How did you burn the CD? The common error for Windows users is to write the downloaded image as an ordinary file while it's an iso image. Do you have/had other OSes installed at this hardware? Do you check if BIOS is trying to use a CD to install? > 7.0-BETA4-i386-bootonly, 7.0- BETA4-i386-disc1 and 7.0-BETA4-i386-disc2 > first then burn it on the cd-rom. Any idea? Please let me know. Please show any display/console output you see while booting (and maybe an error message) and we'll be glad to help you. A breaf description of your hardware (motherboard/chipset/memory/CD DRIVE/etc) may also give us some tips. WBR -- bsam