I did make release NOPORTS, NODOC, of and on the same RELENG_8, and burnt the now nicely CD sized dvd1 image onto a CDR. 515411968 bytes RELENG_8_20090928-i386-dvd1.iso Using both the dvd and cd drives, the MD5 and SHA256 match. I can mount the iso and all is fine. Booting it looks normal up until I see: Bios drive C: is disk1 _ where the underscore just sits there blinking. At that point ctrl-alt-del is the only thing left to do. It does this on both secondary master and secondary slave drives. Anyone else seeing this?