Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:14:43 +0530 From: Joseph Koshy <joseph.koshy@gmail.com> To: Derrick Edwards <dantavious@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 boot CD does not boot? Message-ID: <84dead720511262144s1602a2efl8628d626766396ad@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511262324.26247.dantavious@comcast.net> References: <200511262324.26247.dantavious@comcast.net>
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de> "You could boot and install as i386 and cross-build your way de> into amd64 land. It's pretty straightforward." de> Not exactly sure where to start. Here: http://edoofus.blogspot.com/2005/10/cross-building-freebsd.html But I'd only recommend doing this if you are familiar with natively building FreeBSD from source. It might be too much of an adventure for someone who is new to the build system. It may be worthwhile digging deeper into the CD boot failure problem. This only seems to affect the amd64 release CD: 1) Does your ISO image have the correct MD5 and SHA256 checksums? Checksums are here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/announce.html 2) What's your hardware like (the dmesg from an i386 boot would be useful). Is this one of the known good motherboards? http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/amd64/motherboards.html 3) What are the symptoms when trying to boot from the AMD64 CD? Do you get to the point where the amd64 kernel is launched? -- FreeBSD Volunteer, http://people.freebsd.org/~jkoshy
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