Doug Hardie wrote:
On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote:
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
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Can you boot a different OS (Win, Ububtu, gparted, etc ...) from the
same drive on the same machine?
Not so far. The drive works fine on other systems.
You said in your orginal post "The bios will not boot from USB stick."
I see no reason why you would think your PC would BOOT from any USB
attached devices.
Since you have another PC that does boot off of usb cd drive, swap hard
drives and use that pc to load FreeBSD to the hard drive. This method
will work for you.
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