From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 24 12:04:51 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66E6116A41F for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:04:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Received: from rambutan.pingpong.net (81.milagro.bahnhof.net [195.178.168.81]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B825443D8F for ; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:03:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rambutan.pingpong.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAOC3JWe004173; Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:03:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from girgen@pingpong.net) Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 13:03:19 +0100 From: Palle Girgensohn To: Palle Girgensohn , Scott Long Message-ID: <02B26A582766A3C7B98EADEA@rambutan.pingpong.net> In-Reply-To: <0F031CB0B6B401C798370EE0@rambutan.pingpong.net> References: <8FF761CF16D72B2EB6D853AC@rambutan.pingpong.net> <4384AFE3.9090106@samsco.org> <0F031CB0B6B401C798370EE0@rambutan.pingpong.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.1.6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 boot CD does not boot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 12:04:51 -0000 --On torsdag, november 24, 2005 12.49.24 +0100 Palle Girgensohn wrote: > > > --On onsdag, november 23, 2005 11.07.31 -0700 Scott Long > wrote: > >> Palle Girgensohn wrote: >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I downloaded the FreeBSD 6.0 amd64 disk 1 CD, and burnt it, but it does >>> not boot, it just skips the CD, tried burning a couple of them, none >>> works. i386 image works fine. Any ideas? >>> >>> /Palle >>> >> >> Does the bootonly CD boot? > > Nope, it does not. It does boot from the i386 CD, though. It is a Dell > 2850 with two 64bit Xeon CPUs. I've used amd64 (5.4) on similar machines > before. Umm, no floppies exists for amd64... Can I boot from a i386 CD and then shift to the amd64 CD and contiunue...?