6.0 boot CD does not boot?

Palle Girgensohn girgen at pingpong.net
Thu Nov 24 12:04:51 GMT 2005


--On torsdag, november 24, 2005 12.49.24 +0100 Palle Girgensohn 
<girgen at pingpong.net> wrote:

>
>
> --On onsdag, november 23, 2005 11.07.31 -0700 Scott Long
> <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
>
>> Palle Girgensohn wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I downloaded the FreeBSD 6.0 amd64 disk 1 CD, and burnt it, but it does
>>> not boot, it just skips the CD, tried burning a couple of them, none
>>> works. i386 image works fine. Any ideas?
>>>
>>> /Palle
>>>
>>
>> Does the bootonly CD boot?
>
> Nope, it does not. It does boot from the i386 CD, though. It is a Dell
> 2850 with two 64bit Xeon CPUs. I've used amd64 (5.4) on similar machines
> before.


Umm, no floppies exists for amd64... Can I boot from a i386 CD and then 
shift to the amd64 CD and contiunue...?


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