Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:21:20 -0400 From: Ben April <ben@destek.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CDROM Boot Failure? Message-ID: <19991014112120.A41884@Darkside.stagecraft.net> In-Reply-To: <199910131703.KAA23031@mina.sr.hp.com>; from Darryl Okahata on Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:03:18AM -0700 References: <199910131703.KAA23031@mina.sr.hp.com>
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On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:03:18AM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote: > Michael Pearce <mpearce@coreth.com> wrote: > > > Is there a known problem with booting the 3.3 CDROM's, or did I just get a > > bad disk? My 3.1 and 3.2 CD's boot fine. > > There's a known problem where 3.3 CDROM's don't boot on some (all?) > IDE CDROM drives. It'll boot fine off SCSI CDROM drives, though. The > workaround is to create the boot floppies, boot off them, and then > install from CDROM. Start the boot with the #2 CD (mine works) and swap in the #1 for the kernel and install. -- ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== Benjamin April-----------------------------The Destek Networking Group Network Specialist-------------------------One Indian Head Plaza E-mail: Ben@Destek.net---------------------Nashua, NH, USA 03060 URL: http://WWW.Destek.NET/ ---------------WAN & Internet Services PGP Fingerprint:41 07 6B 58 D3 5F CD 04 2B D3 A5 49 B5 BD E3 9B If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== ========== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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