Bug 147458 - FreeBSD 8 can't boot from DVD, unless DVD is explicitly chosen from bios boot menu
Summary: FreeBSD 8 can't boot from DVD, unless DVD is explicitly chosen from bios boot...
Status: Closed Overcome By Events
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: i386 (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-i386 (Nobody)
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Reported: 2010-06-04 04:00 UTC by Austin English
Modified: 2024-11-17 03:22 UTC (History)
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2010-06-04 04:06 UTC, Austin English
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Description Austin English 2010-06-04 04:00:16 UTC
Tested with FreeBSD 8.0, PC-BSD 8, as well as FreeBSD 8.1 beta. Hardware is an HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop. When I put in the BSD DVD to install, I get the cd loader, and up to the line '/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x8d9548'. The computer sits there for a minute or two, before rebooting itself.

I found, however, that if I hit escape in bios and explicitly choose to boot from the CD/DVD drive, the install will work just fine.

Fix: 

Explicitly choosing to boot from cd/dvd.
How-To-Repeat: Burn FreeBSD iso, put in drive and turn it on :-).
Comment 1 Austin English 2010-06-04 04:06:12 UTC
Here is the output from lshal on that machine.

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-Austin
Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2010-06-04 16:21:28 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->freebsd-i386

This could be machine-specific.
Comment 3 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2017-12-31 08:00:10 UTC
For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 4 Graham Perrin freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2023-03-22 22:16:48 UTC
Is this still an issue with any current RELEASE or pre-release version of FreeBSD?
Comment 5 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2024-11-17 03:22:18 UTC
^Triage: I'm sorry that this PR did not get addressed in a timely fashion.

By now, the version that it was created against is long out of suppoprt.
Please re-open if it is still a problem on a supported version.