Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:20:35 -0500 From: shashi <shashi@Shift-F1.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: booting from CDROM fails Message-ID: <20001130002035.A20813@Shift-F1.com>
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Hi all, I have never had this problem before so am not sure how to handle this. I added a new hard disk to my computer (4th SCSI disk) which already had 3.4-stable. everything was fine. I could mount the CDROM. then i said,let me install 4.0 from the DCROM. I changed the BIOS setup to change the boot sequence to be "CDROM, C, A" on reboot, it said it "found a Bootable CDROM", then it said "the cdrom drive has been changed from A: to B:" then it went ahead and booted from the hard drive!!! i tried everything and failed to boot from CDROM. in desparation I said if there is no bootable C: it will pick the CDROM, so I formatted the hard disks and booted again, now it complains no bootable device!! I have checked the boot sequence, it is CDROM first. I have a 450 MHz pretty recent computer, with Award BIOS, 4 SCSI HD, 1 SCSI CDROM. any help will be appreciated. if possible cc me on the reply. thanks, shashi joshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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