Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:55:06 -0600 (CST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: loader and "Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor" Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0711161235260.5871@glacier.reedmedia.net>
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Trying to boot PC-BSD 1.4.1 and I get: CD Loader 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Read error: 0x10 Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor I find this discussed a lot, but haven't found a solution yet. My BIOS is K7VM2 for ASRock http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7VM2 I started with version P1.30 and now I updated to 1.90 (dated 9/5/2003). (I have no floppy. So I downloaded freedos ISO image, mounted it, copied it, added the flash utility and new flash, made new iso and burned it. It booted fine and I could update flash fine. My BIOS indicated it was new.) But I continue to get the "Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor" error. I have tried with two different CD drives. Any ideas on how to solve this? Or is it just not possible to boot with my BIOS? What about using a different boot manager? And then have it boot the CD? Any suggestions on that? Jeremy C. Reed p.s. I may just try to boot it over the network... but I got to setup my boot server for that.
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