Production Release 5.3 Installation Won't Boot

[babaloo munchies]

Greetings,

Thank you for your quick response.  The CD image
itself was fine--the 5.3 installation disc booted on a
newer laptop.

I finally gave up and used floppies and was able to
install 5.3 from CD on the pentium mmx desktop.  This
is strange because the 4.8 installation cd booted fine
on the same pentium desktop.

One difference between 4.8 & 5.3 is that the 5.3 loads
ACPI , but is the ACPI module loaded in the
installation kernel? Is it an interrupt problem?  I
don't know.  But I do have 5.3 running happily on it
now thanks to teh floppies.

(sorry if I don't understand the FreeBSD kernel or if
I'm using the wrong terminology.  In GNU/Linux I
believe ACPI must be compiled into the kernel.)

thank you gods (devils) of FreeBSD.  FYI, this pentium
mmx machine running 5.3 is a ROCKET even when compared
to an optimally compiled Gentoo Linux kernel.  I have
never seen any machine boot as fast, restart apache &
serve webpages as fast as this, and it's only a
pentium mmx. wow.  



--- Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de> wrote:

> 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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