On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> wrote:
> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The > bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. > It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader > message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time > the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 > times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for > another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. > > The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external > drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and > temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I > would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will > become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable > option. _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To > unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the same drive on the same machine? -- Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br FreeBSD since 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99% winblows FREE) _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"