On 3/24/2004 4:37 PM, Nicolai E M Plum wrote: > Hi > > I am having problems booting FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE on a system I > have. Booting from CD gives me: > > ---- > [other messages from the BIOS] > CD Loader 1.01 > > Building the boot loader arguments > Read Error: 0x01 > Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor > ---- > > Booting from floppies works OK. > > The same happens when trying to boot a CD of 5.1-RC1 that I happen to > still have around. 4.9-RELEASE boots fine from CD. > > Hardware is an older Dell Pentium Pro system, with a Samsung SM-532 > DVD-ROM CD-RW drive. > > Any ideas why this happens? I've worked around it, but it's a bit > awkward. I can't find any details of why it happens in searching mailing > lists. The 5.x bootable install CDs no longer use floppy-emulation mode. The change was made because some newer machines do not support this emulation mode. However, older machines may not be able to boot CDs in "native" (non-emulation) mode. We can't support everybody, so we support the new machines. In many cases a BIOS update will fix this, so you might check for that. JonReceived on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 14:42:38 UTC
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