Probably should've said that I have no problems booting from all other
bootCDs I've tried... even windows manages to do it (which in itself is
amazing since it dislikes SCSI greatly). I never had any problems with
Linux, FreeBSD on the other hand seems to be a bit more nitpicking...
which isn't necessarily a bad thing, it's just annoying when you can't
install it easily.
Rene
Derek Ragona wrote:
I believe it is more incompatibilities with older BIOS and SCSI BIOS,
etc. I have an older MB that won't boot the SCSI CD. This is really
problematic as the system will boot the floppies, but cannot after
booting, find the boot device. I have to mount the cd and update from
the mounted cd. Once I have the system loaded on the hard drive it is
fine.
I know this is of no help, just letting you know you are not alone.
-Derek
At 02:01 PM 2/28/2006, Rene Brehmer wrote:
I've got SCSI Plextor CD-drives in my computer (AMD Athlon XP-based),
and ATA harddrives. When I try to install FreeBSD 6.0 booting from
the CDs, it stops with "Error, unable to load kernel". I tried first
with 6.0, then with 5.4. Interestingly the 5.4 installer says "Unable
to load matching kernel".
I then made the install floppies, and used those to boot from, and
then it installed without a problem. Although the disk slicer did
make a few errors in the partition table, which I had to fix to get
Windows to work properly (did a dual-boot install).
Just wondering: Does FreeBSD have an issue with SCSI CD-ROM drives,
or is it just the install bootup??? Need some documentation before I
can actually use it for anything, but atleast now I've figured out
how to get it on my harddrive...
Rene
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