Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 13:37:08 -0700 From: George Neville-Neil <gnn@hudson-trading.com> To: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@twincling.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot DVD does not boot Message-ID: <A5867180-3773-4604-A2D4-50F4CFB2A21E@neville-neil.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905102244580.8730@localhost> References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0905102244580.8730@localhost>
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On May 10, 2009, at 15:45 , Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi all: > > The FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot DVD does not boot up. > > I'm on a normal Celeron 1.6GHz Presario C300TU laptop > with 160GB HDD and 2GB DDR2 RAM. > > The system just whirrs up the DVD drive, the LEDs blink for a few > moments and then the installed FreeBSD 7.1 screen is presented. > > I tested the DVD drive by putting in the old FreeBSD 7.1 DVD and > it works fine. > > As an additional investigation i wrote another DVD with -J -R > flags (unnecessary though in my opinion) and even this DVD does > not get booted up. > > The first thing i did was do a md5sum on the downloaded .ISO > image and that is fine. > > Has anybody tried FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 DVD and could get it > to boot ? Is there something that i'm missing here ? > Any pointers are appreciated. > Hi, I believe I had a similar problem, though I don't know how the DVD image was burned as it was handed to me by a friend. I was trying to install the amd64 8.0 image for 200905 and during boot my laptop, a Thinkpad X60 (T7200 Core Duo) would simply freeze up. I was able to install by burning a CDROM image of the first iso. The CDROM installed fine and that system is now up and running. Best, George
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