From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 22 23:33:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3946716A401 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:33:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from smtp3.clear.net.nz (smtp3.clear.net.nz [203.97.33.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05A6513C455 for ; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:33:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from markir@paradise.net.nz) Received: from [192.168.1.11] (121-72-69-246.dsl.telstraclear.net [121.72.69.246]) by smtp3.clear.net.nz (CLEAR Net Mail) with ESMTP id <0JCA00878MR8UP30@smtp3.clear.net.nz> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:33:09 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:33:08 +1300 From: Mark Kirkwood In-reply-to: <003601c73d6d$0620c910$0c00a8c0@Artem> To: Artem Kuchin Message-id: <45B549B4.50201@paradise.net.nz> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <01c501c73a58$2c546550$0c00a8c0@Artem> <45B280C5.30106@paradise.net.nz> <003601c73d6d$0620c910$0c00a8c0@Artem> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061227) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 23:33:10 -0000 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... :-)