Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:33:08 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz> To: Artem Kuchin <matrix@itlegion.ru> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all Message-ID: <45B549B4.50201@paradise.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <003601c73d6d$0620c910$0c00a8c0@Artem> References: <01c501c73a58$2c546550$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45B280C5.30106@paradise.net.nz> <003601c73d6d$0620c910$0c00a8c0@Artem>
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Artem Kuchin wrote: > Mark Kirkwood wrote: > >> I have seen this with a Tyan PIII board + TX2000. In my case re-trying >> the boot from cd several times would *eventually* get a working >> installer session. (If you search the archives you'll see several >> cases of folks encountering this). Unfortunately I don't know of any >> solution. >> A (tedious) workaround (in case repeated attempts always fail for >> you), is to install a minimal system off an earlier version of >> FreeBSD and run the installer off the installed system - or just src >> upgrade to the version you want. I found that the 4.x, 5.0, 5.1 and >> 5.2 cd's all worked fine - but 5.3 onwards and 6.x would register >> dump. > > > There is a better workaround which i used. A simple start of installer from > 4 floppies. Then install the whole system from CD-ROM. It does work but > insolved copying of floppy images onto the disks. > However is it a very annoying problem which i have been encountering > since 5.0-RELEASE. The bootloader failed when trying to load installed > from CD-ROM on pretty much every PIII and old Celeron pc which i tried. > (it is about 6 machines by now). Very weird and i have no idea to how > help to solve the problem. > Right, however it means you need a floppy drive - and I've "gone floppiless" for my machines... :-)
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