Re: Pre-install Setup Questions

 

>On Monday, May 18, 2026 at 03:33:03 PM PDT, David Christensen <[email protected]> wrote:

>>On 5/18/26 08:23, John Gaskill wrote:
>>> On Sunday, May 17, 2026 at 11:36:15 PM PDT, David Christensen wrote:
>>>   Have you tried installing from the dvd1 ISO?  Does it have everything
>>>   you want?
>>
>> Yes, I did. Without success.
>>
>> I have the dvd drive selected as the boot drive until after the installation
>> is complete, and it is recognized by the system.
>>
>> So I contacted ASUS Support and altered the DVD hookup, and made all
>> the changes the support agent told me to make. I have checked the
>> UEFI status and everything is recognized as being there and functioning.
>>
>> After exiting the UEFI to boot, I submit the ADMIN PW, get about ten
>> seconds of black screen, the dvd lights up and rolls, but stops, and a
>> different font of text message appears, stating:
>>
>> "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media
>> in selected Boot device and press a key"
>>
>> Doing so produces a loop repeating the same message.
>>
>> A cold start, and sign in bypassing the UEFI produces the same result.
>>
>> IIRC the .iso type files are supposed to be self-starting in a boot use.
>>
>> I am also going to take this up with ASUS support today

>A bad DVD could produce those results.  A bad DVD drive could produce
>those results.  Try computing the checksum of the FreeBSD dvd1 DVD
>without mounting it and compare the computed checksum to the published
>checksum of the FreeBSD dvd1 ISO.  Try booting a known good bootable
>DVD.  Try booting the FreeBSD dvd1 DVD in a system that has a known good
>DVD drive.

The DVD drive is new as is the Memorex dvd-r disc. I hooked up the drive to my
laptop and it works fine. I used 7Zip to compute the checksum and it matches
the SHA 256 published for the dvd1-iso.

I use 7zip to test the file and got the following results:

"7zip tested 99% I;\FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso

Total Size 4244 MB
Compresses Size 4242 MB
Processed 4242 MB
Files 30559
Errors: 1

Testing [BOOT}\
2-Boot-NoEmul.img

----------------------------- Error Report Box

1. FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-amd64-dvd1.iso

 Warnings:
 There are some data the end of the payload data. 


> If you burned the FreeBSD memstick image to a USB drive, you could boot
> that and it should have a rescue shell that you could use for
> trouble-shooting.
>
> David

Due to a short term illness, I did not contact ASUS Support yesterday but
will do so this afternoon.