re-flashed bios with latest version from dell's website. it was the same version but i re-flashed anyways and im still seeing the same behavior where i cant mount any disks to install or use the livefs.
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Shaun Sabo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but then why does it not complain in freebsd 6.2, linux, or windows but it > does in 7.0? and why i mean by the freebsd sysinstaller is the screen you > get when you boot a freebsd disk or when you type sysinstall at a command > line in a bsd system. i had the problem where it would only boot 2/3 of the > way into the bios once before when i used debian, it was because debian was > still on the 2.4 linux kernel and didnt support my mobo yet so it tried to > detect it and you had to completely power off the system to get it to boot > again, which seems like what is happening here. im going to try re-flashing > the bios just to make sure that nothing is wrong with them. And also i tried > both the 7.0-RELEASE and 7-STABLE livefs disks and both of them cannot mount > the livefs image. > > On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 10:46:53PM -0400, Shaun Sabo wrote: > > > i tried both the 7-stable and 7.0-RELEASE livefs disks and when i went > > into > > > fixit then to CD/DVD livefs it would ask me for the livefs cd (which i > > had > > > in the drive and which i booted from) it looks like i cant even mount > > the > > > image of the livefs disk from the cd-rom drive. > > > > I'd recommend you burn one of the snapshot livefs images to a CD and > > boot it. This is what I was implying the first time around. It should > > give you a live FreeBSD system with common utilities. > > > > > also iv noticed that when i > > > reboot after booting into the sysinstaller the bios gets about 2/3 of > > the > > > way booted and stops and i have to hold the power and reboot to get > > back > > > into opensuse/vista. > > > > I don't understand what this means. "When I reboot after booting into > > the sysinstaller". Are you talking about FreeBSD sysinstall? > > > > Otherwise, any situation where the BIOS does not boot your hard disks > > sounds more like a BIOS or system problem and definitely has nothing to > > do with FreeBSD. > > > > -- > > | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | > > | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | > > | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | > > | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | > > > > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"