Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot

From: babaloo munchies (babaloomunchies_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/31/04

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    Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 03:19:16 -0800 (PST)
To: questions@FreeBSD.org

    Hello,

    I downloaded ISO images disc 1 & disc 2 & the boot
    disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX
    machine. None of these discs will boot for the
    installation! What happens is the CD drive fires up,
    I see a couple of lines from FreeBSD--the bootloader
    or something--it acts like it's trying to boot. The
    CD drive spins up, the two or three lines flash on the
    screen but then the whole computer restarts. It keeps
    doing this over and over again for each disc.

    I had an old FreeBSD 4.8 disc and it booted fine. I
    thought maybe my burner had problems so I burned a
    Linux distro and it booted fine.

    So the problem cannot be the CD medium (3 cds w/ same
    problem?), not the CD burner and not the machine.
    What's going on? This is the third time I've tried
    FreeBSD and failed to get it to work. I just give up
    and revert to linux because at least I can install it
    each and every time. But I want to use FreeBSD.

    Any help would be appreciated.

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