Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:06:30 -0400 From: "Gerald S. Stoller" <gs_stoller@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: gs_stoller@juno.com Subject: Booting CDROM of FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <Sea1-F151uPDVniSnRM0000450b@hotmail.com>
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I purchased the book "The Complete Reference FreeBSD " (published by
McGraw Hill Osborne) which contained a CDROM of FreeBSD 5.0 . I read a
few of the text files on it and then tried to boot it. Shortly after
starting this, it wrote (to the screen) "
CD loader 1.01
Building the boot loader arguments
Relocating the loader and the BTX
", then there was a pause of about 15 minutes and then it wrote (to the
screen) "
Starting the BTX loader
". I waited another 35 minutes and nothing else happened, though the
hard-disk light seemed to be on all this time (50 minutes). Anyone know
what is going on? Is this a bad boot loader or a bad CDROM , or a poorly
designed CDROM? (it takes this long and longer, and it gives you no
comments to warn you about the length of time needed)?
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