Greetings,
Thank you for your quick response. The CD image
itself was fine--the 5.3 installation disc booted on a
newer laptop.
I finally gave up and used floppies and was able to
install 5.3 from CD on the pentium mmx desktop. This
is strange because the 4.8 installation cd booted fine
on the same pentium desktop.
One difference between 4.8 5.3 is that the 5.3 loads
ACPI , but is the ACPI module loaded in the
installation kernel? Is it an interrupt problem? I
don't know. But I do have 5.3 running happily on it
now thanks to teh floppies.
(sorry if I don't understand the FreeBSD kernel or if
I'm using the wrong terminology. In GNU/Linux I
believe ACPI must be compiled into the kernel.)
thank you gods (devils) of FreeBSD. FYI, this pentium
mmx machine running 5.3 is a ROCKET even when compared
to an optimally compiled Gentoo Linux kernel. I have
never seen any machine boot as fast, restart apache
serve webpages as fast as this, and it's only a
pentium mmx. wow.
--- Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 31 December 2004 14:03, Andrew L. Gould
wrote:
On Friday 31 December 2004 05:19 am, babaloo
munchies wrote:
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.
Comparing the md5sum of the image with the one at
the server
might save bandwidth.
Regards
Fabian
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