From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 19 1:33:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from metis.salford.ac.uk (metis.salford.ac.uk [146.87.232.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E0039155F5 for ; Fri, 19 Nov 1999 01:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 3258 invoked by alias); 19 Nov 1999 09:33:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 3245 invoked from network); 19 Nov 1999 09:33:11 -0000 Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk (146.87.255.76) by metis.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 19 Nov 1999 09:33:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 97246 invoked by uid 141); 19 Nov 1999 09:33:11 -0000 Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 09:33:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Mark Powell X-Sender: mark@localhost To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.3 CD (Sep 30) won't boot In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 18 Nov 1999, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Mark Powell writes: > > > then hangs. The machine can be rebooted with CTRL-ALT-DEL. Win98 and > > Redhat 6.1 boot just fine from CD on the same machine. Surely, FreeBSD > > should do the same? > > Cheers. > > It should, it doesn't, it's a bug, it's in the release errata, Yeah, I've seen the errata. That's why I'm using the later version of the 3.3 CD. However, that too does not work. The errata states that the original 3.3 CD fails to boot on ATAPI CDROMS, but works on SCSI. I am using the later version of the CD and SCSI, but it still does not work. The errata is wrong. > workarounds include booting from floppies or starting the boot from > the second CD. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message