From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 3 01:55:01 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3E6E16A4CE for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 01:55:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.syd.swiftdsl.com.au (mail.syd.swiftdsl.com.au [202.154.83.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD5F543D31 for ; Sat, 3 Jan 2004 01:54:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from deviledog@swiftdsl.com.au) Received: (qmail 24919 invoked from network); 3 Jan 2004 09:58:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (218.214.54.98) by mail.syd.swiftdsl.com.au with SMTP; 3 Jan 2004 09:58:39 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v609) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: FreeBSD-questions From: August Simonelli Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 20:54:54 +1100 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.609) Subject: 5.2 ISO won't boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 09:55:01 -0000 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