Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 11:31:55 -0700 (PDT) From: JOHN BARKAS <thunderceptor@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/66297: FREE BSD INSTALLATION PROBLEM Message-ID: <200405051831.i45IVtrR069675@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200405051840.i45IeKZ6082676@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 66297
>Category: i386
>Synopsis: FREE BSD INSTALLATION PROBLEM
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-i386
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed May 05 11:40:20 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: JOHN BARKAS
>Release: 5.2
>Organization:
>Environment:
EVERY AWARD BASED BIOS MOTHERBOARD (BOTH AWARD BIOS 4.51 & AWARD-PHOENIX 6.00) WITH X-86 CPU [I HAVE TESTED IT WITH AMD K-6 II @450Mhz,PENTIUM III-S TUALATIN @ 1.26G
>Description:
I CANNOT START FREE BSD INSTALLATION USING 5.2 VERSION WHEN I BOOT FROM CD-ROM,AS THE AWARD BIOS REPORTS:BOOT FROM CDROM... Failure
THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN ON AMI BIOS VERSION 6.27 AND LATER AND TOSHIBA LAPTOP BIOS(MY EXAMPLE IS 4010CDS SATELLITE)
I BELIEVE YOUR CD-ROM HAS SOME KIND OF STRANGE? EMULATION (AS I HAVE TESTED THOSE BIOSES USING FDD & HDD EMULATION ON DIFFERENT DISKS USING NERO BURNING ROM 6 BOOT CD FUNCTION AND WORKED FINE.
PLEASE FIX THIS ANNOYING PROBLEM AS I LOVE THIS OS.
IF YOU FIX IT PLEASE SEND ME AN E-MAIL INFORMING ABOUT FREE-BSD CORRECTED VERSIONS.
>How-To-Repeat:
ON AWARD BIOS 4.51PG ENTER BIOS SETUP BY PRESSING DEL AND THEN GO TO THE BIOS FEATURES SETUP MENU AND SET THE BOOT SEQUENCE TO : CDROM,C,A AND BOOT SYSTEM AFTER INSERTING THE FREE-BSD BOOTABLE CD-ROM
ON AWARD-PHOENIX BIOS 6.00 ENTER THE BIOS SETUP BY PRESSING DEL AND THEN GO TO ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES AND SET FIRST BOOT DEVICE:CDROM,AND BOOT SYSTEM AFTER INSERTING THE FREE-BSD BOOTABLE CD-ROM.
>Fix:
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