Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:46:05 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1-RC iso won't boot Message-ID: <20040209114534.B48001@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040209134351.G40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> References: <20040209133832.K40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <20040209134351.G40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote: > > I've had this problem on several boxen with the 5.2-R iso, and now I see > > it again with the 5.2.1-RC iso: > > > > I try to boot it, it comes to the "Boot from CD" prompt, and as soon as it > > switches to the loader I see some kind of a registry dump that seems to > > loop endlessly (I can't really tell what it says because it loops too > > fast). > > > > I had no problems booting a 5.1-R iso, so, was there a change in the > > loader code? > > I forgot to mention: this is a no-name P4 box with an MSI board, the CDROM > identifies itself as > > acd0: CDROM <SR244W> at ata1-master PIO4 Sounds like a BIOS bug. Have you upgraded the BIOS recently? Tried a different disc, in case it was corrupted? :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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