RE: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine
I forgot to say that when trying to boot from the bad CD, the server indicated that the Boot Record was not found and then booted off the existing OS on the hard drive. Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine
On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Steve Holmlund wrote: I figured out why a 4.7 CD that I had downloaded as an ISO image and burned wouldn't boot my machine. It had to do with the kind of blank CD I was using. I switched from GQ 700MB/80 minute blank CD (dirt cheap at Fry's in Palo Alto) back to a Maxell 650MB/74 minute CD. That did the trick. Any explanation as to why this is so would be appreciated. It may have FWIW, I used the GQ dirt cheap at Fry's CDRs to burn/boot 4.7 successfully. I agree it's probably a borderline drive/disk compatibility issue. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Solution to why my 4.7 CD wouldn't boot my machine
Steve Holmlund wrote: I figured out why a 4.7 CD that I had downloaded as an ISO image and burned wouldn't boot my machine. It had to do with the kind of blank CD I was using. I switched from GQ 700MB/80 minute blank CD (dirt cheap at Fry's in Palo Alto) back to a Maxell 650MB/74 minute CD. That did the trick. Any explanation as to why this is so would be appreciated. It may have nothing to do with FreeBSD, I realize. The drive in my Server is a Matshita DVD, I believe. I burned the CDs on a Win2K machine with Adaptec Easy CD Creator 4.05. Some CDROM drives don't recognize the 700MB media as a CD. Yours apparently is one of them. Kent Thanks. Steve Holmlund To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message . -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
