Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:38:59 -0500 From: Derek Ragona <derek@computinginnovations.com> To: abc@ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net, "freebsd-questions" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: VIA C3 - cant boot CD Message-ID: <6.0.0.22.2.20060901063758.025ecff0@mail.computinginnovations.com> In-Reply-To: <200609010121.k811LXog001366@en26.ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.n et> References: <200609010121.k811LXog001366@en26.ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net>
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Try booting another bootable CD. It sounds like the CD you burned didn't
burn properly. You can find bootable images in other OS's at bootdisk.org
or FreeDOS.org.
-Derek
At 08:21 PM 8/31/2006, abc@ai1.anchorage.mtaonline.net wrote:
>i have an ML6000 (no floppy) and have downloaded
>the 4.11 mini-iso image, and burned it to a CD-RW.
>
>CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (666.55-MHz 686-class CPU)
>
>after rebooting, the CD is found, and a boot
>attempt is made. within 5 seconds, the kernel
>locks up after about 3 seconds of the
>kernel data+234238 text+23432 stuff and the
>/-\|/-\ twirling prompt, leaving a "/" as the
>first character on the next line.
>
>the ISO is the exact size it should be, and
>i could "gzip -t mfsroot.gz" in the /boot
>directory without error - so i guess it's
>a good image. i am running 4.10 currently,
>and have no boot problems off the hard drive.
>
>any ideas as to what could cause this lock-up
>at boot time? i thought the ISO's are made with
>the mkisofs --no-emul-boot, yet the CD is recognized
>as a 2.88 floppy, and boots 0:fd(0,a)/boot/loader.
>i never booted off CD's before, and don't know
>what i should expect exactly.
>
>thanks.
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