Re: booting from cd-rom
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]>
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> From: "Alex Hollerith" <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:51:04 +0200 > Sender: [email protected] > > hi, > > i'm trying to boot and install freebsd 4.7 from cd-rom on my laptop. > the loader stops with "can't work out...". > > is there a way (e.g. by setting loader parameters) to get things > going or should i just give up? You did not give us much to go on. Model of laptop and details on the full message would help a bit. If the laptop has a floppy, you might want to try booting that way and seeing if the kernel on the floppy can talk to the CD. If so, you can just tell it to install from the CD. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message