Cannot start install cd of 6.2-R at all

[Mark Kirkwood]

Artem Kuchin wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>
>> I have seen this with a Tyan PIII board + TX2000. In my case re-trying
>> the boot from cd several times would *eventually* get a working
>> installer session. (If you search the archives you'll see several
>> cases of folks encountering this). Unfortunately I don't know of any
>> solution.
>> A (tedious) workaround (in case repeated attempts always fail for
>> you), is to install a minimal system off an earlier version of
>> FreeBSD and run the installer off the installed system - or just src
>> upgrade to the version you want. I found that the 4.x, 5.0, 5.1 and
>> 5.2 cd's all worked fine - but 5.3 onwards and 6.x would register
>> dump. 
> 
> 
> There is a better workaround which i used. A simple start of installer from
> 4 floppies. Then install the whole system from CD-ROM. It does work but
> insolved copying of floppy images onto the disks.
> However is it a very annoying problem which i have been encountering
> since 5.0-RELEASE. The bootloader failed when trying to load installed
> from CD-ROM on pretty much every PIII and old Celeron pc which i tried.
> (it is about 6 machines by now). Very weird and i have no idea to how
> help to solve the problem.
> 

Right, however it means you need a floppy drive - and I've "gone 
floppiless" for my machines... :-)