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Date:      Mon, 9 Feb 2004 13:44:29 +0100 (CET)
From:      Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 5.2.1-RC iso won't boot
Message-ID:  <20040209134351.G40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>
In-Reply-To: <20040209133832.K40769@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at>
References:  <20040209133832.K40769@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

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/



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