Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 23:52:25 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: freebsd@jdc.parodius.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 installs where FreeBSD 8 wont due to CD Message-ID: <E1PPkr3-000G1s-UC@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <20101206232529.GA8235@icarus.home.lan>
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> This problem has been reported many times in the past and almost > certainly has nothing to do with 8.x. Here's a thread about the matter > where a user states the same as you but about 7.1: > > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2008-10/msg00307.html I found that - it appears to be a different problem because.... > I would question 1) the burning software you used, and 2) the physical > media you used. Also try burning the ISO to another disc (even if of ....I am not burning a CD or using any physical media. I am booting directly off the image file using iLO. Hence the stuff in that thread doesnt apply. It's defintely 8 specific - I can boot an mage from 7 it works fine, but 8 doesn't. I think this is to do with USB now - the machine has a physical drive as well (acd0) - is it possible that the installer sees that, but not the USB connected drive ? So it tries that drive instead, which would produce the error message in question, just as if there was corrupt physical media [Indeed, the physical drive may well contain an Audio CD - I have no idea what the guys in the data centre might have put in it] I can't really do this physically - I'm in London and the server is somewhere in Louisiana, USA. Makes it hard to diagnose things. -pete.
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