Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:43:30 +0100 From: Martin <nakal@web.de> To: "Glen Barber" <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available... Message-ID: <20081228164330.02453de8@zelda.local> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310812280725v77f44f87vf34d2eb8bb6fa6ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <1230215875.3862.14.camel@neo.cse.buffalo.edu> <20081228161813.2ea1058b@zelda.local> <4ad871310812280725v77f44f87vf34d2eb8bb6fa6ca@mail.gmail.com>
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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
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