Re: 5.3 RC1 CD boot?

On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 02:24:55PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Christoph Kukulies <kuku_at_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. 


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Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku_at_kukulies.org