From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 21 18:01:43 2003 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 07ADF16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from www-02.iinet.net.au (www-02.iinet.net.au [203.59.24.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ECF743D68 for ; Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:01:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nigelt@iinet.net.au) Received: (qmail 12336 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Dec 2003 02:01:38 -0000 Date: 22 Dec 2003 02:01:38 -0000 Message-ID: <20031222020138.12335.qmail@www-02.iinet.net.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "Nigel Taylor" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mr.Mail 0.5 X-Originating-IP: 203.59.191.12 Subject: Installing 5.1 problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: nigelt@iinet.net.au List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 02:01:43 -0000 Hi all I have order the 5.1 CD set, and i went into install it on my p3 800, with a Asus CUSL2 motherboard, first i went into my bios (Award Medallion Bios v6.0) and change it to boot from CD Drive, saved then rebooted. Then it came up Primary Master Western Digital WD Caviar 153B (which is my hard drive), Primary Slave Lite-on DVD-ROM Drive XJ-HD166S. Which at first look alright to me then it came up DISK BOOT FAILURE,INSERT SYSTEMDISK AND PRESS ENTER ummmmmm i looked in the cd-rom yes my disk was in, so i changed my cd-rom and put in a Acer 24x cdrom and still the samething, then i tried another one iomega ZIPCD 650 4x Burner thing and still the same problem. So i went into the bios and this is what i have under the boot section in the bios 1.CDROM 2.None 3.None 4.None Plug & Play OS YES Boot Virus Protection Enabled Quickpower on self test Enabled Boot up floppy seek Enbaled Full screen logo Enabled Then i still go the same messages after i look at the bios, I have no floppy drive also, if anyone can help i would be so grateful Thanks Nigel