Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:15:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Got to the CDROM drive!! (Was: Re: Oh, no....) Message-ID: <20060902201556.GA1277@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <20060902194903.GB1385@gothmog.pc> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> <20060902160840.GA1344@gothmog.pc> <20060902180107.GB4394@thought.org> <20060902194903.GB1385@gothmog.pc>
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On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:49:03PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-09-02 11:01, Gary Kline <kline@sage.thought.org> wrote: > > > > 100% consistent. tHe strange thing is that when I set the > > boot-order in the BIOS to "CDROM" it's ignored. (Maybe I > > don't have the boot CD? that occured when I was crawling > > out of bed!) I have all 4 f the 5.3 boxed set. > > So there is no way to boot from install disc-1 of FreeBSD? > > This should at least give you a chance to boot from the install disc, > and then insert the FixIt CD-ROM to start investigating what is wrong, > as Greg Lehey suggested :) > Finally (after 57th reset), I must have done something/enough to the BIOS so that the server booted from the boot CD; I just dropped in th live-fs disc. Probably can't scp stuff out so this is ging to take some serious poking around! -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public service Unix
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