From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 1 16:48:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB0116A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:48:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from tibor.swiftdsl.com.au (tibor.swiftdsl.com.au [202.154.92.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B2543D31 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 2004 16:48:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deviledog@swiftdsl.com.au) Received: (qmail 18536 invoked by uid 33); 2 Jan 2004 00:52:12 -0000 Received: from 61.88.6.90 (SquirrelMail authenticated user deviledog) by webmail.swiftdsl.com.au with HTTP; Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:52:12 +0800 (WST) Message-ID: <15173.61.88.6.90.1073004732.squirrel@webmail.swiftdsl.com.au> Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 08:52:12 +0800 (WST) From: deviledog@swiftdsl.com.au To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal Subject: trouble with booting from 5.2RC2 ISO X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 00:48:04 -0000 Hi all, I've had some trouble with booting from the 5.2 ISO I downloaded. Some background (long-winded, but bear with me): I downloaded 5.2RC2 disk1 and 5.2RC2 disk2 with Firebird on Red Hat 9. All seemed well. I scp'd those files to my Mac (Panther) and created dmg's and burned them to a CD. All looked well. I then tried to boot from the CD but it didn't work. I made sure all BIOS settings were set to boot from CD first. I tested with a WinXP install CD and it could boot from cd. I tried the FreeBSD cd on another machine and it failed as well (windows worked). Assuming I had messed up the burning I tried burning on windows with Nero. All looked well, but same result. Finally, I downloaded the mini-5.2RC2 iso thingy from IE on WinXP and burned it with nero and voila I could boot off the cd rom. I then downloaded 4.9 (i'm a newbie afterall and was slowly realizing that 5.2 was not, uh, for me yet!) on my Mac and created a working bootable disk from the ISO. So, my question is: did downloading the 5.2RC2 ISO on Linux mess it up (ascii vs binary maybe - would that give the behavior I described). Maybe the scp killed it? Is 4.9 different than 5.2? (i read something somewhere about emulated el torito vs real el toritos, or something like that). Any insight would be greatly appreciated ... (is this the right list? i'm a newbie but maybe it should go to the questions list?) thanks, august