Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2000 11:24:17 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? Message-ID: <200001021924.LAA12016@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2000 13:03:38 EST." <XFMail.000102130338.vev@michvhf.com>
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> > I'm setting up a new machine. Nothing special, ABit TX5 with an intel > 233, Paradise video card, 32MB ram (non-parity), 4GB Maxtor, an ATAPI > 4X cdrom and a keyboard. That's it. No network, no mouse, not over > clocked, nothing at all special. Both 3.2 and 3.3 CDs get to the data > section and give a register dump and System halted at the bottom of the > screen. Well, there's something wrong. (You can safely assume that in order to tell you what's wrong, you're going to have to give us that register dump.) The chances are good, however, that your BIOS is doing something silly, and you won't be able to boot FreeBSD off CDROM on that board. Can you boot from floppy? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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