Boot from a CD

Christopher W. Aiken

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Sep 6, 2000, 8:15:29 AM9/6/00

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Again I ask... I installed FBSD 4.1 only to find out
that the boot loader needs a patch to boot correctly.
At least that is what I learned from the FBSD errata
sheet out on the 'net.

Is it possible to boot my newly installed FBSD 4.1 system
from my "official" CD's that I purchased from Walnut Creek?
If so how.

Yes I have a bootable CD drive. When I boot from my CD's
FBSD wants to "install". What I need to know is how to
skip the install and boot up the FBSD system that I already
have installed.

Thanks...

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Zhihui Zhang

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Sep 6, 2000, 9:39:20 AM9/6/00

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:

> Again I ask... I installed FBSD 4.1 only to find out
> that the boot loader needs a patch to boot correctly.
> At least that is what I learned from the FBSD errata
> sheet out on the 'net.
>
> Is it possible to boot my newly installed FBSD 4.1 system
> from my "official" CD's that I purchased from Walnut Creek?
> If so how.
>
> Yes I have a bootable CD drive. When I boot from my CD's
> FBSD wants to "install". What I need to know is how to
> skip the install and boot up the FBSD system that I already
> have installed.

I am using FreeBSD 4.1-Release on several machines. Once you install
FreeBSD on your hard disk, you should be able to boot from it, no floppy
or CD-ROM is needed. Maybe you should check the BIOS setup to tell it to
boot from your hard disk. If you still fail, try to be specific when
describing your problem and hopefully someone will try to help your out.

-Zhihui

Christopher W. Aiken

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Sep 6, 2000, 12:11:59 PM9/6/00

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On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

You missed the point. I too have done various installs w/o
any problems. With this install I chose to use the
"FreeBSD Boot Manager". This displays the F1/F2/F3... O/S
selection at boot time. At 4.1 there is an error in this
"boot manager" that prevents the system from booting at all.
We are left with nothing but a blank screen and no keys, not
even Ctrl-Alt-Del work.

The FBSD site has this problem listed on the errata sheet.
What I want to be able to do is boot my "installed" system
up from the CD's bypassing the FBSD Boot manager. If I could
do this, then I could apply the boot0 patch from the FBSD site.

W/O this patch I'm dead in the water with no way to boot up
my "installed" system, since the Boot Manager over wrote my
MBR.

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Christopher W. Aiken

Kent Stewart

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Sep 6, 2000, 12:33:42 PM9/6/00

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Did you try following the instructions on booting from the floppies if
you can't boot from the CD.

Kent

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