Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 14:26:07 -0400 From: "Tommie \"TJ\" Fitzgerald, Jr." <mercury12@myrealbox.com> To: "Mark Filipak" <filipak@mrincubator.org> Cc: "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: yet another 4.6 install question Message-ID: <001901c2162c$730ae0a0$0201a8c0@tjsbox> References: <000601c215ca$2efbb4a0$0201a8c0@tjsbox> <3D0D94DD.3A1A0134@mrincubator.org>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Filipak" <filipak@mrincubator.org> To: "Tommie "TJ" Fitzgerald, Jr." <mercury12@myrealbox.com> Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 3:50 AM Subject: Re: yet another 4.6 install question > "Tommie \"TJ\" Fitzgerald, Jr." wrote: > > > > I just downloaded the FreeBSD disc 1 iso and made an install disc with > > it. The md5 sum for the file was correct. I am trying to install on > > an Emachine w/ a AMD-K6 333 and 96(?) megs RAM. I have the boot order > > set to floppy, cdrom, hd1. The first time I booted it read the cd but > > kept going and booted into Windows 98. So I deleted all the > > partitions on the hd from a boot floppy, and then when I tried to boot > > from the install cd I got this: > > > > 002 : NO ROM BASIC > > 001 : SYSTEM HALTED > > Your system could not boot from the CD. This is probably because you > didn't really make a bootable CD. Have you ever made a bootable CD from > an ISO image before? > > Ciao -- Mark > > > > > This is my first experience with FreeBSD (I've been waiting for 4.6 to come > > out), so I know next to nothing. > > > > Tommie Fitzgerald > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > I'm not sure. It's actually working now. The first CD I made was on a cd-rw, so I thought that might be the prob, but the second, on a regular cd-r, did the same thing. So I used my Win98 boot disk to start and fdisked and formatted the hard drive, and after doing that it worked. Why is that? Was th MBR perhaps damaged? TF To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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