On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:48:45PM -0500, Chuck Bacon wrote: > > SERIOUS APOLOGIES! I've found out my dvd is marginal, or > possibly the drive. What seemed like a bad dvd apparently > resulted in a scan (by the BIOS?) until it found a boot loader > it understood, "PC-DOS" it said, which was one of several I > discovered in grepping the ISO file. I should have > done freebsd-update ! > Chuck Bacon - c...@cape.com
Chuck, where on the DVD is the copy of PC-DOS? > > > I downloaded it yesterday. Here's the facts: > > > > 1. md5 matches CHECKSUM.MD5 > > > > 2. When I boot off the BIOS, it takes a half minute or so, and > > then: voila! PC-DOS boots, and for all the world look as > > though it will boot a larger system; except it doesn't have > > a clue. > > > > Here's the hypothesis: The FreeBSD-8.3-RC3 boot loader doesn't > > satisfy my BIOS, and the BIOS looks through the dvd until it finds > > one of the DOS boot loaders provided by some fdisk variant. > > Any ideas why? > > > > If nothing else, I'll download disc1. Praps that'll work! > > > > Many thanks, > > Chuck Bacon -- c...@cape.com > > ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html
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