From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 18 13:09:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA02143 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA02138 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:09:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA11268; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:12:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 16:12:34 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: "Michael A. Endsley" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981218111138.0082cae0@customcpu.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Michael A. Endsley wrote: > I took my new 3.0-R cd down to the computer store and tried different > Cd-Rom drives till I found a brand that would boot FreeBSD from the CD. > Several did and one of them is Mitsumi FX3400S!B. I bought a new one (same > thing), took it home and installed the CD Drive onto my Aptiva E-26. After > running Win95 and testing the new drive, I did a soft reboot with the new > 3.0-R CD in the drive. It didn't boot (kernel not found). > I then rebooted into Win95, accessed the CD, and did soft reboot again. > This time, I booted FreeBSD from the HD. Not only did fbsd not find the > CD-Rom, the probe couldn't find anything at the 170 address! > What am I missing? > I also did a cold reboot, booted from the HD with -c and then quit and let > the probing start. Still nothing. > Any help would be appreciated, ie- I can't really take the Mitsumi back. > Mike > 1) have you tried a boot floppy? 2) check your master/slave jumpers on the harddrive and cdrom. 3) my mitsumi works really nicely. you may have a very annoying bios(tm) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/ 3.0-current > __________________________________________________________ > OS of CHOICE? UNIX (FreeBSD), LINUX (Debian), and OS/2Warp > al7oj@customcpu.com > al7oj@al7oj.ampr.org or al7oj@al7oj.#nak.ak.usa.noam > http://www.customcpu.com/personal/al7oj/ > > __________________________________________________________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message