Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 02:52:40 -0500 From: Kevin Miller <sar@fourohfour.ods.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: installing 4.6 from cd problems -- suggested solution Message-ID: <3D0C43C8.1030407@fourohfour.ods.org>
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I was having problems, as other have, installing 4.6 from cd. I posted to freebsd-chat just to test the water and see if anyone else was experiencing this also. I saw a post to freebsd-stable mentioning an addition to the /boot/loader.conf. Since it is kinda difficult to change that line in the loader.conf on a cd (unless its rewritable), I thought 'what about setting it at boot.' I tried just that, and it worked. I had to change the line in the /boot/loader.conf file once I got it installed so it would read the a cd w/out having the dma problem it was having during install, but at least it works now. The suggested line was: hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 and if you hit a key (other than Enter) at the bootloader prompt during CD boot, and type: set hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 it should let it install. Sorry if I said more than I should have, as far as 'anyone should know that', but I'm old to unix, but new to freebsd, and i had to learn by trial and error (along with burning 4 extra copies of the install CD before I saw the suggestion). Hope this helps. Kevin Miller BTW.. I have an AOpen 52x cdrom that it seems a majority of the people having this problem also have. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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