From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 4 4:52:30 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 04:52:28 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.241.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E33637B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 04:52:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilith (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA27841; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:52:18 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <000d01c05df1$0df90920$4011a8c0@wohnheim.uniulm.de> From: "Siegbert Baude" To: "Dan R. Daniels" , , References: Subject: Re: HELP!!! Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 13:52:26 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ 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