i386/66297: FREE BSD INSTALLATION PROBLEM

[JOHN BARKAS]

>Number:         66297
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       FREE BSD INSTALLATION PROBLEM
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 05 11:40:20 PDT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     JOHN BARKAS
>Release:        5.2
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>Environment:
EVERY AWARD BASED BIOS MOTHERBOARD (BOTH AWARD BIOS 4.51 & AWARD-PHOENIX 6.00) WITH X-86 CPU [I HAVE TESTED IT WITH AMD K-6 II @450Mhz,PENTIUM III-S TUALATIN @ 1.26G
>Description:
I CANNOT START FREE BSD INSTALLATION USING 5.2 VERSION WHEN I BOOT FROM CD-ROM,AS THE AWARD BIOS REPORTS:BOOT FROM CDROM... Failure
THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN ON AMI BIOS VERSION 6.27 AND LATER AND TOSHIBA LAPTOP BIOS(MY EXAMPLE IS 4010CDS SATELLITE)
I BELIEVE YOUR CD-ROM HAS SOME KIND OF STRANGE? EMULATION (AS I HAVE TESTED THOSE BIOSES USING FDD & HDD EMULATION ON DIFFERENT DISKS USING NERO BURNING ROM 6 BOOT CD FUNCTION AND WORKED FINE.
PLEASE FIX THIS ANNOYING PROBLEM AS I LOVE THIS OS.
IF YOU FIX IT PLEASE SEND ME AN E-MAIL INFORMING ABOUT FREE-BSD CORRECTED VERSIONS.
>How-To-Repeat:
ON AWARD BIOS 4.51PG ENTER BIOS SETUP BY PRESSING DEL AND THEN GO TO THE BIOS FEATURES SETUP MENU AND SET THE BOOT SEQUENCE TO : CDROM,C,A AND BOOT SYSTEM AFTER INSERTING THE FREE-BSD BOOTABLE CD-ROM
ON AWARD-PHOENIX BIOS 6.00 ENTER THE BIOS SETUP BY PRESSING DEL AND THEN GO TO ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES AND SET FIRST BOOT DEVICE:CDROM,AND BOOT SYSTEM AFTER INSERTING THE FREE-BSD BOOTABLE CD-ROM.
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