The fact that the hard drive was formatted with Win2K/XP is why you see the NTLDR message, this is nothing to worry about. The more pressing issue is why your CD-ROM did not boot. If the cd was burned properly it should have booted. An ISO is a disc image and would already contain the necessary boot loader if thats how the cd was meant to be used.
Did you actually create a cd FROM a disc image or did you just place the iso file onto the cd??? What I mean is if you look at the contents of your cd drive from windows do you see a bunch of files or just one little lonely iso file?? The burned cd should have a volume name of "FreeNAS_cd", a directory called boot and a couple of gnuzipped files in the root path, 17 files in all on the cd. Just in case... try using Active@ ISO Burner, a small freeware utility, to burn a new disc. It is designed to just burn iso files. Dummy proof for a sod like me :) Download Page http://www.ntfs.com/iso-burning.htm Direct Link http://www.ntfs.com/downloads/Iso-burner.exe -Tharin O. DHSinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do I need to add to my cdrw to get it to read and play? Have cd burned with a dot-iso for FreeNAS. Yes, know it is FreeBSD based. OK. The cd seems to be missing some (?) boot loader. Which one? Am getting the following msg: Verifying DMI Pool Data............. Boot from ATAPI CD-ROM: Failure.... NTLDR is missing Press CAD to restart Where do I start? No idea why IT looks for NTLDR. The hard drive has been erased! Perhaps I need to format it yet again........from MSDOS.... :) It is only 1.08GB in size, and, is really old......but still kicking.... I'll be up most of the night with this one. Best, Duncan
