On 30 January 2013, at 05:16, Fbsd8 wrote: > 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 >>>> 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? >> 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.
Yes that works now. But starting this weekend it will be about 100 miles away. That no longer will be practical. > > > _______________________________________________ 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"
