From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 7:29:33 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6B337B401; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:29:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B66243FAF; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 07:29:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003020615293005200dt5eue>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:29:30 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h16FTT79010340; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:29:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h16FTTcr010337; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 10:29:29 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: Stephen Cravey Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unable to boot 5.0-R CD error References: <20030205074909.Y92155@www.gotbrains.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 Feb 2003 10:29:29 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030205074909.Y92155@www.gotbrains.org> Message-ID: <44y94tmnqe.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 22 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Stephen Cravey writes: > I'm getting an error when trying to boot any of the 5.0-RELEASE cd's > something like: > > CD Loader 1.01 > Building txxx boot loader arguments > Could not find primary volume descriptor > > > and then it dies there. txxx is illegible in my notes, but somehow I don't > think that is significant. When booting from floppy, I have to install > additional drivers from the driver floppy to be able to install from CD. > > The device line from dmesg after installation is: > > acd0: CDROM at ata1-master PIO3 > > I have a vague recollection of a problem similar to this sometime in the > 4.x tree, but specifics totally escape me. If you can boot from floppy, do that. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message