From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 22 14:27: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles528.castles.com [208.214.165.92]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3A3F14F80; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:27:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA04820; Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:35:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <200001222235.OAA04820@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Vince Vielhaber Cc: Mike Smith , stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting 3.x from CD? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 22 Jan 2000 11:17:27 EST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 14:35:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. Thanks _very_ much for the followup. One less ulcer for me! -- \\ 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