From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 2 20:16:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F1316A4DA for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:16:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (dsl231-043-140.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.231.43.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3495F43D45 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 20:16:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: from sage.thought.org (kline@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k82KG1jR001324; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:16:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@sage.thought.org) Received: (from kline@localhost) by sage.thought.org (8.13.6/8.13.1/Submit) id k82KFuMi001322; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:15:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline) Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 13:15:56 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Giorgos Keramidas Message-ID: <20060902201556.GA1277@thought.org> References: <20060902033024.GA68680@thought.org> <20060902160840.GA1344@gothmog.pc> <20060902180107.GB4394@thought.org> <20060902194903.GB1385@gothmog.pc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060902194903.GB1385@gothmog.pc> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix for 20 years. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Got to the CDROM drive!! (Was: Re: Oh, no....) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:16:12 -0000 On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:49:03PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2006-09-02 11:01, Gary Kline 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