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From: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD?
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On 05-Jan-00 Mike Smith wrote:
> Ack.  At this point in time, we're stumped.  It looks like you're 
> trying to install 3.1 here, but the code sequence that you're running 
> doesn't actually exist in the 3.1-RELEASE loader.  If you boot this 
> particular CDROM, does it always die at _exactly_ the same place?
> 
> The avenues for code corruption are:
> 
>  - bad CDROM (will always be the same error)
>  - bad memory (may vary locations, etc.)
>  - bad CD drive/cabling/controller (may vary locations)

Problem found and fixed.  It was a bad CDROM drive.

Vince.
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