From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 21:26:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBSI.com (websi.com [216.205.27.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7671B37B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:26:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from shashi@localhost) by WEBSI.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA20842 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:20:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shashi) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:20:35 -0500 From: shashi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting from CDROM fails Message-ID: <20001130002035.A20813@Shift-F1.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have never had this problem before so am not sure how to handle this. I added a new hard disk to my computer (4th SCSI disk) which already had 3.4-stable. everything was fine. I could mount the CDROM. then i said,let me install 4.0 from the DCROM. I changed the BIOS setup to change the boot sequence to be "CDROM, C, A" on reboot, it said it "found a Bootable CDROM", then it said "the cdrom drive has been changed from A: to B:" then it went ahead and booted from the hard drive!!! i tried everything and failed to boot from CDROM. in desparation I said if there is no bootable C: it will pick the CDROM, so I formatted the hard disks and booted again, now it complains no bootable device!! I have checked the boot sequence, it is CDROM first. I have a 450 MHz pretty recent computer, with Award BIOS, 4 SCSI HD, 1 SCSI CDROM. any help will be appreciated. if possible cc me on the reply. thanks, shashi joshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message