Problem booting AMD Athlon XP 2200+ from CDROM

[walt]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Jonathon McKitrick wrote:

>
> walt wrote:
> >>>>>>>>>>

> Anything unusual about the partition table on that machine?
>
> I *think* I might have installed FreeBSD in 'dangerously dedicated' mode.  Could that be
> it?

I've never actually done that, so anything I say is speculation.

My understanding is that 'DDM' eliminates the DOS partition table altogether.
If that understanding is correct, then my guess is yes, that is your problem.

Since the DFly /boot/loader is based on the FBSD software, it would be
interesting to know if a FreeBSD install floppy or CD behaves the same way.
Or, come to think of it, any OS installer which depends on the partition
table -- linux, Windows, etc.

What does the FreeBSD fdisk program say?