Re: 5.2.1-RC iso won't boot

On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:00:23 +0100 (CET)
Lukas Ertl <l.ertl_at_univie.ac.at> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote:
> >
> > > > I've had this problem on several boxen with the 5.2-R iso, and now I see
> > > > it again with the 5.2.1-RC iso:
> > > >
> > > > I try to boot it, it comes to the "Boot from CD" prompt, and as soon as it
> > > > switches to the loader I see some kind of a registry dump that seems to
> > > > loop endlessly (I can't really tell what it says because it loops too
> > > > fast).
> > > >
> > > > I had no problems booting a 5.1-R iso, so, was there a change in the
> > > > loader code?
> > >
> > > I forgot to mention: this is a no-name P4 box with an MSI board, the CDROM
> > > identifies itself as
> > >
> > > acd0: CDROM <SR244W> at ata1-master PIO4
> >
> > Sounds like a BIOS bug. Have you upgraded the BIOS recently? Tried a
> > different disc, in case it was corrupted? :)
> 
> No, I didn't upgrade the BIOS, and IIRC there's no update available.
> 
> Of course I thought I might have gotten a coaster :-), but I've tried
> 5.2-R, 5.2-R miniinst, and 5.2.1-RC, all of them show the same behaviour
> on at least three machines of the same kind.  As stated, the 5.1 iso boots
> fine.
> 
> We have gotten around by booting from a 5.1 CD and then switching to a 5.2
> CD, but this isn't really elegant. :-)
> 
> regards,
> le
> 
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This must be a HW proplem since I downloaded 5.2.1-RC-i386-miniinst.iso ( md5 sum 23edc450f53ca28d1772fd1e08016bf2 ) from ftp.is.freebsd.org just yesterday and it worked fine.
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