failure to mount cd when installing 64-bit

[Pierre Abbat]

On Thursday 21 June 2012 23:12:40 Pierre Abbat wrote:
> I burned a CD of the latest 64-bit DragonFly and booted a 64-bit laptop
> with it. It started CPUs 0 through 7 and then issued the following
> messages:
>
> WARNING: waiting for the following device to finish configuring:
> xpt:  func=ffffffff8027dd67 arg=0
> tryroot cd8
> no disk named 'cd8'
> setrootbyname failed
> iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> Root mount failed: 6
> Mounting root from cd9660:cd9
> tryroot cd9
> no disk named 'cd9'
> setrootbyname failed
> iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> Root mount failed: 6
> Mounting root from cd9660:/dev/cd0
> tryroot cd0
> setrootbyname failed
> iso_mountroot: can't find rootvp
> Root mount failed: 6
>
> Manual root filesystem specification:
> [skip]
> mountroot>?
> Possibly valid devices for root fs:
> "md0" "md0s0" "mapper/control"
>
> How do I make it work? It's an HP Pavilion with Intel i7 CPU.

On the advice of someone on IRC, I downloaded an image and wrote it to a thumb 
drive. I booted the thumb drive and got the same error, except that this time 
it was /dev/da8s1a that it couldn't find.

This is a 4 GB thumb drive; the GUI image is 3997171712 bytes, so I figured it 
should fit. But dd said at 3880452096 bytes that it reached the end of 
device. What gives? Still it should be able to mount the partition; darner 
has no trouble mounting it.

Pierre
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