On Friday 31 December 2004 05:19 am, babaloo munchies wrote: > Hello, > > I downloaded ISO images disc 1 & disc 2 & the boot > disk for FreeBSD 5.3 to install on a Pentium MMX > machine. None of these discs will boot for the > installation! What happens is the CD drive fires up, > I see a couple of lines from FreeBSD--the bootloader > or something--it acts like it's trying to boot. The > CD drive spins up, the two or three lines flash on the > screen but then the whole computer restarts. It keeps > doing this over and over again for each disc. > > I had an old FreeBSD 4.8 disc and it booted fine. I > thought maybe my burner had problems so I burned a > Linux distro and it booted fine. > > So the problem cannot be the CD medium (3 cds w/ same > problem?), not the CD burner and not the machine. > What's going on? This is the third time I've tried > FreeBSD and failed to get it to work. I just give up > and revert to linux because at least I can install it > each and every time. But I want to use FreeBSD. > > Any help would be appreciated. > Perhaps the problem is with the iso image. Try downloading the iso file for CD1 again.
Good luck, Andrew Gould _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
