Re: 5.3 RC1 CD boot?

From: Christoph P. Kukulies (kuku_at_kukulies.org)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 14:33:13 +0100
To: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@des.no>

    On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:24:55PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
    > Christoph Kukulies <kuku@www.kukulies.org> writes:
    > > I was used to burn a disc1 with 5.x releases. Today I spent a couple
    > > of hours to no avail to get a disc1 booted. I burnt 2 times on
    > > different computers, finally I thought that perhaps the dis1 is no
    > > longer bootable and downloaded and burnt the 5.3-RC1-bootonly.iso
    > > image. Also boot failure. I cannot boot FreeBSD disc images any
    > > longer.
    >
    > If you want it fixed, you'll have to tell us what's broken. At the
    > very least, tell us what error message the BIOS prints when it tries
    > to boot from the CD.
    >
    > FWIW, I have booted a lot of i386 machines (most of them Dells) from
    > CD lately, and have not had any trouble.
    >
    > > (Computer is a Dell Inspiron 8000).
    > >
    > > What's happened?
    >
    > lemme guess, you forgot to hit F12 and tell the BIOS to boot from the
    > CD-ROM instead of the hard disk?

    Ah no :-)

    I chose CD booting exactly from that Boot menu but the CD rattled a bit but
    didn't spin up.

    I tried later from the 3 floppy set and after an initial I/O error on the
    CD I was able to install the system.

    It's been probably hardware at tolerance margins.

    Thanks. So you say it should boot from disc1. 

    --
Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org
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