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From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com>
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Subject: Re: Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot
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On Friday 31 December 2004 05:19 am, babaloo munchies wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I downloaded ISO images disc 1 & disc 2 & the boot
> disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX
> machine.  None of these discs will boot for the
> installation!  What happens is the CD drive fires up,
> I see a couple of lines from FreeBSD--the bootloader
> or something--it acts like it's trying to boot.  The
> CD drive spins up, the two or three lines flash on the
> screen but then the whole computer restarts.  It keeps
> doing this over and over again for each disc.
>
> I had an old FreeBSD 4.8 disc and it booted fine.  I
> thought maybe my burner had problems so I burned a
> Linux distro and it booted fine.
>
> So the problem cannot be the CD medium (3 cds w/ same
> problem?), not the CD burner and not the machine.
> What's going on?  This is the third time I've tried
> FreeBSD and failed to get it to work.  I just give up
> and revert to linux because at least I can install it
> each and every time.  But I want to use FreeBSD.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
Perhaps the problem is with the iso image.  Try downloading the iso file 
for CD1 again.

Good luck,

Andrew Gould