5.2.1-release iso images broken?

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 02:12:37PM -0500, scion+fbsdq at webrelay.net wrote:
> I've been trying to boot up a Compaq 1850.  Aside from it hanging
> on booting I noticed that I was booting with 5.2.1-RC, not -release
> So, d/l the latest iso and now the darned machine won't boot from
> the 5.2.1-release cds at all.  Doesn't even see them.  I've booted
> this machine up on 3 or 4 different linuxen, Fbsd4.9, Solaris 8,
> even openDarwin 7.  I've burned several cds of 5.2.1-release-mininst
> but no joy.
> 
> So, off to another pc and golly if the cd won't boot there either!
> 
> Is there a known problem with the i386 iso images for 5.2.1-release?

Not that I've heard of.  The most likely explanation is that your
download was corrupted, or your CD did not burn correctly.  Did you
verify the MD5 hash of the ISO image after you downloaded it, and did
you do the same for the CD you burned?

Kris
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 187 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/attachments/20040312/946fc25d/attachment.bin