Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:28:21 +0100 From: David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com>, jn07texas@yahoo.de Subject: Re: 7.2 CD won't boot Message-ID: <200908051728.22039.david@vizion2000.net> In-Reply-To: <4ad871310908050919u2fa32e09pa690edebd37b9881@mail.gmail.com> References: <53907.98.245.242.40.1249486879.squirrel@webmail.wcubed.net> <4ad871310908050919u2fa32e09pa690edebd37b9881@mail.gmail.com>
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> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 11:41 AM, John Nielsen.<info@us.army.org> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > My 7.2 Release Disc 1 won't boot. I get the following and nothing more: > > > > CD Loader 1.2 > > > > Building the boot loader arguments > > Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found > > Relocating the loader and the BTX > > > > I'm running on a Intel SE7501BR2, single Xeon, 2GB. I have burned a > > second CD and swapped the CD drive, cable and RAM, all to no avail. I > > have a RR1520 RAID controller, but removed that as well. On-board SCSI > > controller and serial ports have been disabled, too. Nothing seems to > > make a difference. > > > > What on earth could be going on? > > Can you verify if another machine boots the CD? Could be a bad download. > > Could be a hardware incompatibility. > > Also, could you try disabling ACPI at boot? I found the amd64 dvd download to be corrupt recently. So do check the download -- did you verify your download? David
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