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Greetings, FreeBSD Forums: I have an iMac on which I've managed to install a variety of Linux distributions successfully, including Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Mandriva. Recently I've become interested in the BSD side of things, so I decided to install FreeBSD. I burned the 8.1 i386 ISO to a DVD...

You're right; I should start over. But I *can't*. Ever since the installation failed, I haven't been able to boot from any CD. It's as if the system is just skipping in the boot order.

Whatever I type in gives No (what I typed in) But the thing is, the system is just ignoring my cd even though it's set up to boot first. It boots fine on my other computer.

Output is: . .. .snap dev tmp usr var stand etc cdrom cdrom1 dist I have tried several disks (with different OSes), and each has been written using Ubuntu Linux. Maybe I'll try the USB image. Well, I can't because the ability to boot from a CD has disappeared.

Hello. I'm here today with a problem that occurred several months ago, in March. Around that time, I decided to install the latest version of FreeBSD (7.x?) on my old eMachines PC. However, I was using a CD which I now know was scratched. I erased my Windows XP partition and used all the...