From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 30 10:13:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 243BDB97 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:13:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jrisom@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ia0-x234.google.com (mail-ia0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c02::234]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC39DCD5 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:13:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ia0-f180.google.com with SMTP id f27so2094940iae.11 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:13:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=QTJUAQq/ksUCJ5dOXgC2a05xMbnCSkzIPYHWk9lJ2yU=; b=PoooHK/MyVkLKA+pjOu0i4YC6DfwE25xsqdV3rT3Knx2MThT9L5F5EeOEoR1Ze3mSS oVaFVrt2nQYSX0WuMP6cZ1xa2JAR03PiQj5Kq/HLi9wTjOlBhzYpcURi8SN9mEdSOV7K KlOlj2G/YXurBRRFhkeVEdhtqhmc6ijG8LzyVQvNolWbqiOavIPHqDUGPDX4X65/js9L 7fZu2H91LxlAhVKZcE9s4FWBMtk92nYK618Z6FXRDYdaZzOB9RZ7sXMm8mMFzMF7HaEj 6fUMsa0FWyETKmxl/BbUFsF3I0PSc4c1neWWtvBePlwk7AsKRUugvUA57rlK49HtJ1qJ ojXQ== X-Received: by 10.42.54.5 with SMTP id p5mr2710720icg.49.1359540837359; Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:13:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.1.14] (c-98-212-197-211.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [98.212.197.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ig8sm389606igc.10.2013.01.30.02.13.55 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:13:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5108F259.8040708@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:13:45 -0600 From: Joshua Isom User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Problem References: <95407B50-A296-4012-A2C4-014321C48C74@lafn.org> <20130129121852.03538e59@papi> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:13:58 -0000 On 1/29/2013 10:25 PM, doug@safeport.com wrote: > > What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have > built-in support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an > external hard drive? > > Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the > drive, and put it back. From that point on you should be able to use the > network to upgrade. > I had to do something like this to try out PC-BSD years ago. I had one computer that wouldn't boot the install CD. I moved the hard drive to a computer that would boot the install CD. The catch was the computer that could boot the install CD wouldn't boot PC-BSD from the hard drive. Sometimes you just find hardware that doesn't behave. I'd also double check your BIOS settings for USB emulation. Most external CD drives are just an IDE or SATA drive with an adapter. If you take it apart, you can put the drive into the computer and see if skipping the USB helps it to boot. It's also a nice way to find a cheap drive.