From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 2 01:25:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA28530 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 01:25:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alcatel.fr (ns.rfs.tm.fr [194.133.58.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA28330 for ; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 01:25:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from alcatel.fr (gatekeeper-ssn.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.244]) by mailgate.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id LAA04464; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 11:22:41 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id KAA16764; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:21:53 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id KAA16454; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:12:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA20569; Wed, 2 Dec 98 10:16:36 +0100 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA112939747; Wed, 2 Dec 1998 10:09:07 +0100 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Wed, 2 Dec 98 10:08:53 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <366500F2.E2D64CB5@uk.radan.com> Subject: Re: Boot from CD Mime-Version: 1.0 To: marko@uk.radan.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr, ynelson@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Re:" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re:" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > There ARE problems with FreeBSD 2.2.6 and IDE CD-Roms. > > > > Ahh, thanks. I never ran 2.2.6, I went from 2.2.5 -> 2.2.7, so I > never had that problem. > > > If you are in this case, you'd better copy the bin and ssys (kernel > > sources) distributions from the CD to a FAT16 partition, install from DOS > > and then upgrade the atapi.c and atapi.h files in the kernel sources. > > Then, you will have access to the CD-Rom from FreeBSD. > > > > Does this mean that you can't install from the CD's with an IDE > CD-ROM, even if you boot from DOS or a floppy? No, my post was only in the context of 2.2.6-Release. You can use the CDROM in the other situations (in particular booting from the boot.flp floppy and then installing from the CD) Anyway, the IDE/Atapi "standard" is not one, so there may be quirks. TfH > > > TfH > > > > > Nelson Yu wrote: > > > > > > > > I bought the FreeBSD CDs and try to boot it from my CD-Rom directly > > > > which my PentiumII system supports. I get a read error message. I > > have > > > > version 2.2.6. Shouldn't I be able to boot and run from the CD-Rom > > > > directly? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, you should. This points to a faulty CD (WC should exchange them > > > if this is the case) or drive (can you read other CD's?). Can you view > > > the contents of the CD in explorer? (I'm assuming you're running > > > Windoze), . If you can read the CD in Windoze you could try doing a > > > DOS boot from the CD, instructions are in one of the TXT files (not > > > sure which) in the root dir of CD 1. > > > > > > > > > > Nelson > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > -- > > > Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It > > > was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. > > > > > > Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. > > > Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions > > > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It > was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. > > Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. > Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message