Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:52:26 +0100 From: "Siegbert Baude" <Siegbert.Baude@gmx.de> To: "Dan R. Daniels" <mdiverda@nia.attmil.ne.jp>, <mdiverdan@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HELP!!! Message-ID: <000d01c05df1$0df90920$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> References: <PLEKIBPIMANAPAMNNDCFEEABCAAA.mdiverda@nia.attmil.ne.jp>
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Hello Dan, > Hardware: > ASUS P2B-F AGP Mainboard & Award Bios > Intel Pentium II, 350mhz Celeron > 128MB 168 pin DIMM Memory module > 18Gbyte Hardrive space (3 Physical Drives) > Matrox Millenium G200 8MB SGRAM AGP > TEAC CD-524E IDE CDROM Drive > Matsushita CW-7582 IDE CDR Drive > IOMEGA Zip 250 > Stdrd 3.5" Floppy Drive > Action: Modified BIOS to allow CDROM Boot > Result: Would not boot from CDROM gave the following error: > "CDROM Boot Failure" For what it is worth: I have an ASUS P2B and also had some problems to boot from CDROM. I canīt check exactly anymore, as I have nowadays only SCSI-CDROM in it. The clue was that the BIOS will magically turn the bootable CD into a "floppy" so the boot order had to be "CDROM,A,C" (canīt remember exactly if it was maybe "A,CDROM,C"). For the problem with the boot floppies: I always avoided the DOS-tools, as I had problems with them. Look for the next UNIX-machine and use dd if=kern.flp of=/dev/<whatever_your_floppy_is_there> That worked 100%. If not try different floppies, the ones sold nowadays are crappy in a high percentage. Ciao Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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