From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 27 18:45:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E569106566B for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (gizmo.acns.msu.edu [35.8.1.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BAD8FC0A for ; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gizmo.acns.msu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o1RIgnvV072789; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:42:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc@gizmo.acns.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by gizmo.acns.msu.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id o1RIgnku072788; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:42:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jerrymc) Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:42:49 -0500 From: Jerry McAllister To: david wilson Message-ID: <20100227184249.GA72753@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> References: <59387.775.qm@web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <59387.775.qm@web58405.mail.re3.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem with booting and installing 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, 27 Feb 2010 18:45:44 -0000 On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 06:50:45PM -0800, david wilson wrote: > I am using win xp on a hp laptop. > I want to run bsd. So i get the cd burned and then > when i reboot my system. it starts up in the usual way. > i have tried setting bios settings for the boot device and > nothiing seems to work. any other help please? It is not quite clear, but I think you are saying that you cannot boot from the new CD you just burned. The most likely problem is that you burned it incorrectly. For me the terminology gets rather fuzzy when trying to describe this, but you must burn the ISO image you downloaded directly to the CD. Usually, if you use the CD for something like backups or to hold a bunch of picture files, you first create an image containing the files and that image gets burned to the CD. But, with the install ISOs, they are already an image that needs to be burned as-is - no further image making. Unfortunately, although I have made many dual boot systems with FreeBSD and XP, I have never used the XP to burn a CD (my earliest installs were actually with Floppies and later versions I burned CDs using FreeBSD), so I am not familiar with the utilities available on XP nor any of their parameters/syntax. You will have to study their documentation. Someone else may know the utilities and their parameters better. The other possible problem is if the BIOS will boot from you CD. If the BIOS is from the last 10 years or so, it should have that ability. It sounds like you have already looked in to this one so it is probably not the problem. The first one above is probably it. Good luck, ////jerry > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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"