From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun May 2 3: 0:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5049B14DBD for ; Sun, 2 May 1999 03:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.227.78] (helo=i-zone.demon.co.uk) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10dt2p-0007MH-0K for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 May 1999 10:00:20 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 21:29:27 +0100 To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org From: John Subject: weird cdrom problerm MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello newbies I have a cdrom drive (32x speed) which SuSE Linux 6 detects but freebsd 3.1 doesn't. I can boot from the cd if the cd is SUSE but not FreeBSD 3.1 (i.e it is a relatively new board and the cdrom drive is set bootable). It is jumpered to be secondary master IDE. There are correctly jumpred hard drives on the other three channels. If I install a linux system, and put the freebsd cd in after installation, the cd is read perfectly. I still cannot boot to cd if I restart the machine - it gives the error 'boot record not found on device'.. [FreeBSD 3.1] If I make a bootable pair of floppies, and configure the kernel, select cdrom as media, it cannot find the cd still. Linux detects the cd as a CRD-8322B ATAPI CDROM drive. It is about 1 year old. What to do? Regards, -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message