Installation Disc Won't Boot

[Joao Barros]

On 8/24/07, lawrence.petrykanyn at sympatico.ca
<lawrence.petrykanyn at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>    Hi,
>
>    I am unable to boot from 6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso.  I have
>    downloaded it and burned it three times without success.
>
>    I am currently running Win98SE and FreeBSD 5.4 on a dual boot.  I had
>    decided to reformat my hard drives so I reinstalled Win98SE and would
>    like to install FreeBSD 6.2.  I downloaded the disc 1 iso image and
>    burned it to a disc in Win98.  I had to boot from my CDrom to
>    reinstall Win98 so I know that my boot priority is correct and that my
>    CDrom is working properly.  I looked at the burned cd with the
>    6.2-RELEASE i386-disc1.iso file on it in FreeBSD 5.4 and everything
>    appears to be there, including a folder called 'boot'.  But I just
>    can't seem to boot from it.
>
>    1.  Is there something simple I'm missing?
>    2.  Should I just try downloading (it takes four hours) and burning
>    more copies again?  (I've already done it three times...)
>    3.  Is the fact that I'm burning it in Win98 a problem?
>    4.  Is there anything I can do in FreeBSD 5.4 to see if the file is
>    corrupted?
>
>    BTW - I installed FreeBSD 5.4 from discs that I purchased through
>    FreeBSD Mall.  I thought I would do it from the 6.2-RELEASE
>    i386-disc1.iso file on FreeBSD's web site this time.
>
>    Any suggestions, advice, or comments would be greatly appreciated.
>
>    Thanks,
>    Larry

Do you have a Promise controller?
I have to disable my onboard Promise so that I can boot from a FreeBSD CD

My Promise:
atapci0: <Promise PDC20319 SATA150 controller> port
0xb000-0xb03f,0xb400-0xb40f,0xb800-0xb87f mem
0xfc024000-0xfc024fff,0xfc000000-0xfc01ffff irq 23 at device 4.0 on
pci4

atapci0 at pci4:4:0:       class=0x010400 card=0x80f51043 chip=0x3319105a
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Promise Technology Inc'
    device     = 'PDC20319(??) FastTrak SATA150 TX4 Controller'
    class      = mass storage
    subclass   = RAID

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Joao Barros