Can't get CDROM to boot, even with SmartBoot
Justin C. Sherrill
justin at shiningsilence.com
Wed Dec 22 07:01:56 PST 2004
>
> I don't know what the deal is with this drive. The FreeBSD CDROM booted
> fine. But the DFly installation ISO does not. I loaded SmartBoot from
> floppy, but it wouldn't recognize the drive, even when I manually entered
> (what I thought were) the port settings.
Juuuust in case: make sure the CD can be mounted - if you have a Linux or
BSD machine handy, mount the CD and make sure it's readable, and not a
skinny frisbee. If the DragonFly CD is not the same brand/type of CD as
the FreeBSD CD, try matching it.
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