FreeBSD Not Making Friendly

[Robert Storey]

The setting to make the CDROM the default boot device is in the BIOS. When you
first start the computer there should be some message on the screen telling you
how to access the BIOS setup program (usually, just holding down the "delete"
key will do it, but some machines use "F1" or whatever). Once you're in the BIOS
setup program, change the boot order so that the CDROM drive is the first device
to boot.

That ought to do it, but one other thing to check is to make sure that the BIOS
doesn't have some "anti-virus" setting enabled that will prevent you from being
able to write the MBR - othewise, you won't be able to install the boot loader.

regards,
Robert

On Sat, 01 May 2004 14:01:23 -0700
"Biz Diva" <bizdiva at hotmail.com> wrote:

> I tried the disk on another PC and it worked fine, up to a point. I got to 
> the window where it shows the machine's settings and it reported 7 
> conflicts. (This machine is running Windows95). All of the options were 
> "collapsed" so, I began opening them to see what further info I could 
> gather. After collapsing the third tier of options (multimedia), the screen 
> went black. I removed the FreeBSD CD and rebooted to windows. No losses.
> 
> ***The original pc that I wrote to you all about is a BSD box. Nothing else 
> on it. I need to tell the BSD box to boot from the CD-ROM but don't know how 
> to make the changes in configuration.
> It could be that the CD-ROM was improperly configured to begin with.
> 
> ***There is nothing on the BSD box that I am concerned about losing so, a 
> complete wipe with an install of 4.9 or later will be fine! I am willing to 
> start from scratch! The problem is, getting the CD-ROM accessed and getting 
> the latest media to that box.
>    a. I burned the latest 4.x version ISO images to CD in binary via ftp
>    b. I was unable to download the floppy images because of insufficient 
> media error msgs.
> 
> ***BOTTOM LINE: I need to boot from the CD-ROM on the BSD box and don't know 
> how to configure the box to do so.
> 
> A friend built the box and as such, only he knows how he configured it and I 
> cannot reach him. (sigh). I am working through Annelise's book FreeBSD, to 
> get my machine upgraded and functional. Thank God for that book and this 
> forum!
> 
> I appreciate everyone's help and assistance!
> 
> Biz
> 
> 
> >From: Matt Anderson <emattman at cascadeaccess.com>
> >Reply-To: emattman at cascadeaccess.com
> >To: Biz Diva <bizdiva at hotmail.com>
> >CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: RE: FreeBSD Not Making Friendly
> >Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 07:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >My first thought on reading of your problem is to wonder if you have a bad
> >cdrom.  I mean the actual disc.  Not the drive.  Can you try it on another
> >computer?
> >
> >Matt Anderson
> >
> >
> >On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Biz Diva wrote:
> >
> > > To All:
> > >
> > > The screen says: Located INDEX, now reading package data from it...
> > > The actual message that I get when re-routed to the prompt from trying 
> >to do
> > > a CD-ROM upgrade is: Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> > >
> > >
> > > Then I get kicked back to the prompt.
> > >
> > > Biz
> > >
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