Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 21:15:02 +1100 From: Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> To: August Simonelli <deviledog@swiftdsl.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.2 ISO won't boot Message-ID: <20040103101502.GA67057@madras.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <E1B72D7C-3DD2-11D8-A6E7-000A95A55144@swiftdsl.com.au> References: <E1B72D7C-3DD2-11D8-A6E7-000A95A55144@swiftdsl.com.au>
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 08:54:54PM +1100, August Simonelli wrote: > 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). According to this link, converting an iso to dmg seems to disable booting off CD. So you may want to burn the iso straight. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200301/msg05920.html hth Gautam
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