Nick Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 6:08 PM, PJ<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Peter N. M. Hansteen 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. >> Unless, of course the booting is supposed to be done in some >> incomprehesible way from some other operating system in some mysterious >> way that is not spelled out anywhere where I can find it, anyway. :-) >> Sorry, but I'm ust laughing all theway back to FreeBSD... they may be >> fucked-up but at least I can managed to figure out how to to deal with them. >> I liked the idea of how your head honcho runs things and the general >> response to the OS, but by gosh and by golly, Molly, somebody ai'nt got >> the steering sheel pointed right! >> >> > > That pisses me off too but a lot of the time there is something stupid > going on. Seriously, did you check the md5? You really need to clear > all the basics before whining around here. Like someone said, if > install45.iso wasn't bootable in general it would have been fixed by > now; if it isn't bootable on your particular machine that's a > different issue, and you should post the machine's specs, possibly a > dmesg (get one from FreeBSD?). > Nick, I' really sorry that it's going this way, but this has not been my week or weeks even... I have two other lg dvd writer/players that are supposed to R/W all formats... but I have never used them to boot... now, I try it and naturally, I expect it to work as all others that I have ever had to work.... So now I feel like I'm being beten over the head with some kind of steel girder. I'll try to straighten it out tomorrow as I can't deal with the store today. BTW, I did check averything... my machines are working fine, everyting is ok... excep this damned dvd machine. I'll know more tomorrow.
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