FREEBSD_INSTALL failed with error 19 during booting installer

[Ian Smith]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 14:56:52 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 > On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 02:09:36AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote:
 > > On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 11:26:15 -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 > >  > On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 08:22:29PM +0200, Marek Salwerowicz wrote:
 > >  > > Hi list,
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > I am trying to install FreeBSD 9.1-Release amd64 on a Supermicro server:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > SuperStorage Server 6027R-E1R12N
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > with Intel Xeon E5-2640 CPU and 32 GB (4 x 8 ) KVR16R11D4/8HC installed
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Currently I have only 2 SSD Kingston  drives (working in mirror)
 > >  > > installed on that server.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > during booting installer from the ISO CD (amd64),  the boot process
 > >  > > fails with message:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Mounting from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL failed with error 19.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > As I found here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=36579 ,
 > >  > > probably this could be issue with ACPI, but setting option in
 > >  > > loader:
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > # set debug.acpi.disabled ="hostres"
 > >  > > # boot
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > made nothing for me.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > Any ideas?
 > >  > 
 > >  > Try using a USB flash drive + memstick image instead of CD-based media.
 > > 
 > > Last time I tried - 9.1-release i386 - the memstick boot gave no option 
 > > to drop to loader; I had to burn a disc1 CD so I could drop to loader to 
 > > turn cam.ctl off to succeed installing in 128MB.  Did I miss something?
 > 
 > I've used memstick images exclusively for years and have never seen
 > this.

Quite right Jeremy, thanks for that and sorry for the noise.

I'd misremembered the problem with the memstick install in 128MB, which 
was that even with kern.cam.ctl.disable=1 (saving ~35MB), there wasn't 
enough memory to complete installation successfully.  The CD install 
(also with kern.cam.ctl.disable=1) works fine, apparently because after 
booting, selecting 'Live CD' rather than 'Install' shows 58MB free in 
top, rather than 44MB with the memstick; it's that close a thing, as 
verified by a series of test installs this afternoon.

No idea why booting from memstick rather than CD would cost ~14MB, but 
I'm sure most people wouldn't much care ..

cheers, Ian