From owner-freebsd-user-groups@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 28 17:12:06 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C41316A420 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:12:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (cenn.mc.mpls.visi.com [208.42.156.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B38913C465 for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:12:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from josh@tcbug.org) Received: from mail.tcbug.org (mail.tcbug.org [208.42.70.163]) by cenn-smtp.mc.mpls.visi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E5D811A; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:39:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.tcbug.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0652F342C9C; Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:39:57 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:39:56 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: Fernando =?iso-8859-1?Q?Apestegu=EDa?= Message-ID: <20070928163956.GF24834@tcbug.org> References: <1bd550a00709280856q42a98284hcf8b5da33098babe@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qpqR4wE1CEr+Roqx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1bd550a00709280856q42a98284hcf8b5da33098babe@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Josh Paetzel List-Id: User Group Coordination List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:12:06 -0000 --qpqR4wE1CEr+Roqx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Fernando Apestegua wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > This is my very first post in this list, so I beg for your patience :) >=20 > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on an IBM Netfinity 5000. I have the > two CD's set. > The machine uses a IDE DVD drive, and 5 SCSI disks. >=20 > I boot the machine and the CD starts to boot. I select the FreeBSD > normal booting. Everything seems to be fine. I can see the messages > about the detected devices (BIOS CDROM is cd0 and so on...) >=20 > I start the installation, The disks are detected, I set up my > partitions and then I select the CD/DVD media installation... and then > I get a No CD/DVD drive is present. >=20 > The drive is working in terms of hardware (I can run several live CD > linux distros for example) and then access the CD as usual. How is it > possible that after booting with FreeBSD the sysinstall (?) program > doesn't detect the cd? >=20 > Thanks in advance freebsd-questions@ is a better list for this, but the long and short of it is the system's BIOS has boot support for the cdrom, but FreeBSD for whatever reason doesn't have a driver for either the CDROM drive, or more likely, the IDE controller itself. --=20 Thanks, Josh Paetzel --qpqR4wE1CEr+Roqx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG/S5cJvkB8SevrssRAuF6AJ90472gBu1o9eyhvv84NkNBDqdszgCfdZ8E VjgOYzI+JclvykajX9Li1B0= =/LO7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qpqR4wE1CEr+Roqx--