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Date:      Thu, 14 Oct 1999 11:21:20 -0400
From:      Ben April <ben@destek.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: CDROM Boot Failure?
Message-ID:  <19991014112120.A41884@Darkside.stagecraft.net>
In-Reply-To: <199910131703.KAA23031@mina.sr.hp.com>; from Darryl Okahata on Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:03:18AM -0700
References:  <199910131703.KAA23031@mina.sr.hp.com>

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On Wed, Oct 13, 1999 at 10:03:18AM -0700, Darryl Okahata wrote:
> Michael Pearce <mpearce@coreth.com> wrote:
> 
> > Is there a known problem with booting the 3.3 CDROM's, or did I just get a
> > bad disk?  My 3.1 and 3.2 CD's boot fine.
> 
>      There's a known problem where 3.3 CDROM's don't boot on some (all?)
> IDE CDROM drives.  It'll boot fine off SCSI CDROM drives, though.  The
> workaround is to create the boot floppies, boot off them, and then
> install from CDROM.

Start the boot with the #2 CD (mine works)
and swap in the #1 for the kernel and install.

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