Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sun Jan 2 04:42:24 PST 2005


On Friday 31 December 2004 14:03, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> On Friday 31 December 2004 05:19 am, babaloo munchies wrote:

> > I downloaded ISO images disc 1 & disc 2 & the boot
> > disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX
> > machine.  None of these discs will boot for the
> > installation!  What happens is the CD drive fires up,
> > I see a couple of lines from FreeBSD--the bootloader
> > or something--it acts like it's trying to boot.  The
> > CD drive spins up, the two or three lines flash on the
> > screen but then the whole computer restarts.  It keeps
> > doing this over and over again for each disc.
> >
> > I had an old FreeBSD 4.8 disc and it booted fine.  I
> > thought maybe my burner had problems so I burned a
> > Linux distro and it booted fine.
> >
> > So the problem cannot be the CD medium (3 cds w/ same
> > problem?), not the CD burner and not the machine.
> > What's going on?  This is the third time I've tried
> > FreeBSD and failed to get it to work.  I just give up
> > and revert to linux because at least I can install it
> > each and every time.  But I want to use FreeBSD.
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> Perhaps the problem is with the iso image.  Try downloading the iso file 
> for CD1 again.

Comparing the md5sum of the image with the one at the server
might save bandwidth. 

Regards
Fabian


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