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From: Martin <nakal@web.de>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...
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Am Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:25:17 -0500
schrieb "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>:

> > With RC1 and RC2 I only get "Booting CD-ROM... failure." from my
> > BIOS (Asus board P2B). Any ideas?
> >
> 
> 1.) Try disabling ACPI
> 2.) Try hw.ata.ata_dma=0 at the boot prompt.

Hi Glen,

I think my PC doesn't even get to the point where it loads anything
from the CD. The BIOS displays a message that the CD is not bootable.

It might have something to do with the problem that old PCs use
CD emulation boot and it was somehow disabled since RC1.

--
Martin