Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:08:37 -0800 From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> To: Mario Lobo <lobo@bsd.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting Problem Message-ID: <BC61770C-D7E5-41A4-8B63-1914DEA0D804@lafn.org> In-Reply-To: <20130129121852.03538e59@papi> References: <95407B50-A296-4012-A2C4-014321C48C74@lafn.org> <20130129121852.03538e59@papi>
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On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 > Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote: > >> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The >> bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. >> It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader >> message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time >> the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 >> times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for >> another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. >> >> The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external >> drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and >> temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I >> would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will >> become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable >> option. _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To >> unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the > same drive on the same machine? Not so far. The drive works fine on other systems.
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