5.2.1 boot fails; "Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor"
Nicolai E M Plum
nicolai-freebsd at esperi.org
Thu Mar 25 03:14:37 PST 2004
Jon Noack writes:
> Nicolai E M Plum writes:
> > Booting from CD gives me:
> > ----
> > [other messages from the BIOS]
> > CD Loader 1.01
> >
> > Building the boot loader arguments
> > Read Error: 0x01
> > Could not find Primary Volume Descriptor
> > ----
> The 5.x bootable install CDs no longer use floppy-emulation mode. The
> change was made because some newer machines do not support this
> emulation mode. However, older machines may not be able to boot CDs in
> "native" (non-emulation) mode. We can't support everybody, so we
> support the new machines.
Ah, fair enough; I can understand that.
> In many cases a BIOS update will fix this, so you might check for that.
Will do.
And now there's an archived answer to search for in the mailing lists :)
Perhaps a document maintainer could add it to the Handbook as a gotcha.
Thanks
Nicolai
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