PJ wrote:
It really pisses me off that everyone assumes that the poor sap who is
asking for help is too stupid to have done things right and they just
forget that maybe the problem is in the SOURCE !
I know what a bootable image usually looks like... but neither of those
I downloaded look right.
Seeing as only last Thursday I downloaded a 4.5 i386 CD, burnt it using
Infrarecorder (Windows) and booted it without any problems you might
see why some people are a little doubtful of your claims, particularly
as you seem all too ready to run back to FreeBSD. If this is a troll,
it's a very poor one.
Still, if you have some weirdly quirky hardware, there's still the boot
floppies or netbooting bsd.rd. All of those work well and you should try
them if the CD fails.
It's also possible to stick it on USB flash, or boot up a VM and run the
CD or any of the alternative methods in that. Those will all prove it
boots with little problem and that we don't need to hack the bootloader
on with a very small magnet.
If the downloaded image looked 'odd' you should check out SGI boot CDs
(for any OS) - now *that's* odd.
PK
