Just to make sure. You are using medias that your CD-ROM can read. I once almost ripped my hair of when I couldn't get an old machine to boot from cd. At the time I was using CD-RW medias and the drive was not able to read them. So if you are using CD-RW try a CD-R.
Mats Hellman On 11/21/05, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I don't have an MS-DOS floppy, and I think my CDROM isn't booting > because the > > HD is 'dangerously dedicated,' even though it is a bootable CD and the > BIOS is > > set to boot it first. > > Since it is set to boot the HD first and it has a boot sector, the BIOS > doesn't want to get by that. > > So, you want to go in to the BIOS and reconfigure it to put the CD boot > in front of the HD. Then you can either completely reinstall the most > recent FreeBSD or use the fisit to rebuild something on that disk. > > The key thing is to have both floppy and CD in the boot order before > the Hard Disk. Change that only if you really need to. > > ////jerry > > > > > I want to totally clear my drive so I can reinstall from scratch from > CDROM. > > How can I do this? > > > > jm > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > > [email protected] mailing list > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
