From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 27 9:36:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.82]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3090837B42C for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SpencerDavey ([24.12.232.229]) by femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000927163607.HXLN27630.femail2.sdc1.sfba.home.com@SpencerDavey> for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:36:07 -0700 Message-ID: <002b01c028a0$d57b9b60$e5e80c18@spokn1.wa.home.com> From: "spencer" To: Subject: Fw: help with cd-rom boot and install, strange problem Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:34:40 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0028_01C02866.28E2C7A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C02866.28E2C7A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my computer which has a Compaq 2x = dvd drive/20x cdrom. The bios supports booting from the cd-rom, but when it tries to boot from the cd I get this message: "boot from atapi cd-rom -failure" "No /boot/loader" At first I thought FreeBSD just didn't support the drive, but then when = I made the boot floppies, and booted up that way, when it loaded the = kernel, it did detect the drive. But it won't let me install from it. What = gives? Thanks for you help, Spencer ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C02866.28E2C7A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Greetings,

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my = computer which=20 has a Compaq 2x dvd
drive/20x cdrom. The bios supports booting = from the=20 cd-rom, but when it
tries to boot from the cd I get this=20 message:

"boot from atapi cd-rom -failure"
"No = /boot/loader"

At=20 first I thought FreeBSD just didn't support the drive, but then when = I
made=20 the boot floppies, and booted up that way, when it loaded the = kernel,
it did=20 detect the drive. But it won't let me install from it. What=20 gives?

Thanks for you=20 help,
Spencer

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