From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 22:23:29 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7DB106564A for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:23:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2CFA8FC14 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:23:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (pD9FBFB6A.dip.t-dialin.net [217.251.251.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q1GMNQsN097144; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:23:26 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q1GMQRL2021326; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:26:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q1GMQFaH013289; Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:26:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201202162226.q1GMQFaH013289@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Chip Oakley From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:11:56 EST." Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:26:15 +0100 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technical Support Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:23:29 -0000 > Am tempted to remove the drive and insert a new one, not sure as there is > memory on the drive available and nothing really wrong with it. I suggest temporarily disconnect data cable of old disc, (no need to unscrew it & replace with another hard disc yet), Then push reset, & see if the raw PC + BIOS is capable of reading & booting the FreeBSD CD with No hard disc. If PC still cant boot the FreeBSD CD, see if PC can boot some/any other bootable CD eg another BSD Linux MS whatever, any CD been proved bootable on other machines. Take it small step by step, decouple the questions can that PC read any cdroms can that PC read that particular cdrom can that PC boot from cdroms can that PC boot from that particular cdroms does the BIOS correctly use the specified boot order or ignore it. Some BIOSES are weird, / cussid. I think I met one where if one didnt tell it to boot off floppy it would not boot off cd either, or similar.) I certainly met one where PC just wouldnt work right after I reviewed & set every damn option on every page. Then I reset to boot defaults (slow) then to defaults optimised, then I reset every option as I wanted it, then the PC worked fine. What that told me is that BIOS in its default reset, was resetting some values that it then never l;ater displayed in its menus. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/