Got to the CDROM drive!! (Was: Re: Oh, no....)

[Gary Kline]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 10:49:03PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2006-09-02 11:01, Gary Kline <kline at sage.thought.org> wrote:
> >
> > 100% consistent.  tHe strange thing is that when I set the
> > boot-order in the BIOS to "CDROM" it's ignored.  (Maybe I
> > don't have the boot CD?  that occured when I was crawling
> > out of bed!)  I have all 4 f the 5.3 boxed set.
> 
> So there is no way to boot from install disc-1 of FreeBSD?
> 
> This should at least give you a chance to boot from the install disc,
> and then insert the FixIt CD-ROM to start investigating what is wrong,
> as Greg Lehey suggested :)
> 

	Finally (after 57th reset), I must have done something/enough to
	the BIOS so that the server booted from the boot CD; I just
	dropped in th live-fs disc.  Probably can't scp stuff out so this
	is ging to take some serious poking around!


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