Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 22:43:25 +0000 (GMT) From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1-RC iso won't boot Message-ID: <20040209223945.U93734@ury.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040209205729.N644@korben.in.tern> References: <20040209133832.K40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <20040209205729.N644@korben.in.tern>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote: > > Sounds like a BIOS bug. Have you upgraded the BIOS recently? Tried a > > different disc, in case it was corrupted? :) > > No, I didn't upgrade the BIOS, and IIRC there's no update available. > > Of course I thought I might have gotten a coaster :-), but I've tried > 5.2-R, 5.2-R miniinst, and 5.2.1-RC, all of them show the same behaviour > on at least three machines of the same kind. As stated, the 5.1 iso boots > fine. > > We have gotten around by booting from a 5.1 CD and then switching to a 5.2 > CD, but this isn't really elegant. :-) This sounds similar to a problem I was seeing with an MSI motherboard. I also worked around it in the same way, although later discovered that a BIOS update was available which did fix it. THis motherboard was manufactured over a year ago, however. Try booting a -CURRENT CD, I seem to remember a fix going into the loader recently to fix some register trashing or something. If it works, re@ may be interested to hear about it during the preperation for 5.2.1... Gavin
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