On 29 January 2013, at 20:25, d...@safeport.com wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> On 29 January 2013, at 07:18, Mario Lobo wrote: >> >>> On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 15:16:14 -0800 >>> Doug Hardie <bc...@lafn.org> wrote: >>> >>>> I have a relatively old machine that I am trying to boot 9.1 on. The >>>> bios will not boot from USB stick. I am using an external CD drive. >>>> It starts the boot process fine and gets to the Bootstrap loader >>>> message with revision 1.1. Then it puts out the machine, date, time >>>> the CD was created and starts the spinner. It spins around about 2 >>>> times and stops. The system continues to read from the drive for >>>> another couple minutes. Then everything stops. Nothing more happens. >>>> >>>> The CD is good. I can boot it just fine using the same external >>>> drive on another machine. While I could remove the drive and >>>> temporarily mount in in the working machine and build it there, I >>>> would like to find a way to successfully boot from CD. This will >>>> become a remote machine and taking it apart later is not a viable >>>> option. > > What is the system you are using? What external devices does it have built-in > support for? In the absence of any data - how about trying an external hard > drive?
9.1 release - Generic. Basically the disk1. Don't have an extra external drive. > > Why not remove the hard drive, use another system to put FreeBSD on the > drive, and put it back. From that point on you should be able to use the > network to upgrade. I have done that before and it does work. However, with the various changes to the system, the root partition I had previously built that way for 8.2 is just not large enough for 9.1. Also, I wanted to go to a single partition (the 9.1 default). Probably freebsd-update will take me through major releases after this, but I was hoping for a better solution so I could avoid having to transport the machine a long way twice to be able to update it. > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
