Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:54:54 +1100 From: August Simonelli <deviledog@swiftdsl.com.au> To: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 5.2 ISO won't boot Message-ID: <E1B72D7C-3DD2-11D8-A6E7-000A95A55144@swiftdsl.com.au>
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Hi all, I've had some trouble with booting from the 5.2 ISO I downloaded. Some background (long-winded, but bear with me): I downloaded 5.2RC2 disk1 and 5.2RC2 disk2 with Firebird on Red Hat 9. All seemed well. I scp'd those files to my Mac (Panther) and created dmg's and burned them to a CD. All looked well. I then tried to boot from the CD but it didn't work. I made sure all BIOS settings were set to boot from CD first. I tested with a WinXP install CD and it could boot from cd. I tried the FreeBSD cd on another machine and it failed as well (windows worked). Assuming I had messed up the burning I tried burning on windows with Nero. All looked well, but same result. Finally, I downloaded the mini-5.2RC2 iso thingy with IE on WinXP and burned it with nero and voila I could boot off the cd rom. I then downloaded 4.9 on my Mac and created a working bootable disk from the ISO with no problem. So, my question is: did downloading the 5.2RC2 ISO on Linux mess it up (ascii vs binary maybe - would that give the behavior I described? I think i read that somewhere). Maybe the scp killed it? Is 4.9 different than 5.2? (i read something somewhere about emulated el torito vs real el toritos, or something like that, which I don't understand). Any insight would be greatly appreciated ...I'm good to go with 4.9 but still curious how I messed the 5.2 download up! thanks, august
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