From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 3 13:40:53 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8D8A16A41F for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:40:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58C0443D46 for ; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 13:40:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CB8B5DCD; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:40:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54010-02; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:40:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-71-31.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.71.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF7D5CA4; Mon, 3 Oct 2005 09:40:50 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <434134E8.5080509@mac.com> Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:40:56 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jacobsanders@highstream.net References: <1128320259.4340cd03bc88a@webmail.highstream.net> In-Reply-To: <1128320259.4340cd03bc88a@webmail.highstream.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: can't install 5.4, won't recognize SCSI CD Rom X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 13:40:53 -0000 jacobsanders@highstream.net wrote: > I'm having a problem installing FreeBSD with a CD Rom disc. I have a SCSI CD > Rom player. It's not possible to configure my system to search for the boot > record from CD Rom. Instead, I've been trying to start from the installation > floppies, then have FreeBSD use the installation media on the CD Rom for the > rest. Unfortunately, FreeBSD can't see the installation media because it > doesn't recognize my CD Rom player. OK. > From what I understand, most of the time, FreeBSD will use it's default drivers > to recognize all hardware on a system. In my case, the CD Rom isn't being > recognized (although the SCSI hard drive is recognized). Can you see the CD-ROM device from within the SCSI card's BIOS screen? If not, you probably have a cabling or termination problem. This is especially common if you have a mixture of 68-pin and 50-pin cables. Try changing the SCSI ID of the CD-ROM drive. Try disabling ultra/wide modes. Double-check any CD-ROM related options in the SCSI BIOS. If you have not already done so, you should try to reflash your BIOS on the MB and the SCSI card (and even for the CD-ROM drive if you can find an image for it) to the latest versions. BTW, you haven't actually told us what the SCSI card or the CD-ROM devices actually are. More details and precise settings would be useful, especially a dmesg (which could be put somewhere on the web and a link mailed, or as an attachment, but watch out for list MIME-type filtering by Mailman). -- -Chuck