From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 13 10:06:09 2005 Return-Path: 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 1342816A4D0 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:06:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web50206.mail.yahoo.com (web50206.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2823B43D53 for ; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:06:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from babaloomunchies@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 27018 invoked by uid 60001); 13 Jan 2005 10:06:07 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=l8Y6SaxmFp1eS4t7hk7ABJ3oYKXbzWKnOD19xHWPbIm9CXT3yekSDIfpAWBZhnGfPyTfufXCpaEPaxJmZ0k57qbp7IFkwCSEdnZo9gma/VHQu/QDgpD2sEs1Fz9Cnc8bnm/3+qzSSU+51MDs7MVG6qMaMcyFPd3uCTsxEFxpbto= ; Message-ID: <20050113100607.27016.qmail@web50206.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [64.175.115.134] by web50206.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:06:07 PST Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 02:06:07 -0800 (PST) From: babaloo munchies To: Fabian Keil , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200501021341.54023.freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: babaloo munchies cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:06:09 -0000 Greetings, Thank you for your quick response. The CD image itself was fine--the 5.3 installation disc booted on a newer laptop. I finally gave up and used floppies and was able to install 5.3 from CD on the pentium mmx desktop. This is strange because the 4.8 installation cd booted fine on the same pentium desktop. One difference between 4.8 & 5.3 is that the 5.3 loads ACPI , but is the ACPI module loaded in the installation kernel? Is it an interrupt problem? I don't know. But I do have 5.3 running happily on it now thanks to teh floppies. (sorry if I don't understand the FreeBSD kernel or if I'm using the wrong terminology. In GNU/Linux I believe ACPI must be compiled into the kernel.) thank you gods (devils) of FreeBSD. FYI, this pentium mmx machine running 5.3 is a ROCKET even when compared to an optimally compiled Gentoo Linux kernel. I have never seen any machine boot as fast, restart apache & serve webpages as fast as this, and it's only a pentium mmx. wow. --- Fabian Keil wrote: > On Friday 31 December 2004 14:03, Andrew L. Gould > wrote: > > On Friday 31 December 2004 05:19 am, babaloo > munchies wrote: > > > > I downloaded ISO images disc 1 & disc 2 & the > boot > > > disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX > > > machine. None of these discs will boot for the > > > installation! What happens is the CD drive > fires up, > > > I see a couple of lines from FreeBSD--the > bootloader > > > or something--it acts like it's trying to boot. > The > > > CD drive spins up, the two or three lines flash > on the > > > screen but then the whole computer restarts. It > keeps > > > doing this over and over again for each disc. > > > > > > I had an old FreeBSD 4.8 disc and it booted > fine. I > > > thought maybe my burner had problems so I burned > a > > > Linux distro and it booted fine. > > > > > > So the problem cannot be the CD medium (3 cds w/ > same > > > problem?), not the CD burner and not the > machine. > > > What's going on? This is the third time I've > tried > > > FreeBSD and failed to get it to work. I just > give up > > > and revert to linux because at least I can > install it > > > each and every time. But I want to use FreeBSD. > > > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > Perhaps the problem is with the iso image. Try > downloading the iso file > > for CD1 again. > > Comparing the md5sum of the image with the one at > the server > might save bandwidth. > > Regards > Fabian > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo