Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:39:58 +0000 From: Thordur Ivar <thib@heimsnet.is> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2.1-RC iso won't boot Message-ID: <20040209213958.3d2db1c8.thib@heimsnet.is> In-Reply-To: <20040209205729.N644@korben.in.tern> References: <20040209133832.K40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <20040209114534.B48001@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040209205729.N644@korben.in.tern>
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On Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:00:23 +0100 (CET) Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Doug White wrote: > > > 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? :) > > No, I didn't upgrade the BIOS, and IIRC there's no update available. > > Of course I thought I might have gotten a coaster :-), but I've tried > 5.2-R, 5.2-R miniinst, and 5.2.1-RC, all of them show the same behaviour > on at least three machines of the same kind. As stated, the 5.1 iso boots > fine. > > We have gotten around by booting from a 5.1 CD and then switching to a 5.2 > CD, but this isn't really elegant. :-) > > regards, > le > > -- > Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at > UNIX Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 > Vienna University Computer Center Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 > University of Vienna http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" This must be a HW proplem since I downloaded 5.2.1-RC-i386-miniinst.iso ( md5 sum 23edc450f53ca28d1772fd1e08016bf2 ) from ftp.is.freebsd.org just yesterday and it worked fine. -- Thordur Ivar thib@{heimsnet.is,bitcode.org} FreeBSD and Unix since 2001! http://www.bitcode.org - No sin is greater the ours -
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