From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 16 6:59:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.well.com (smtp.well.com [206.14.209.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36D0137B401 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 06:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.0.1.13] ([213.97.199.178]) by smtp.well.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA12143 for ; Tue, 16 Oct 2001 06:58:57 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: miguel@pop.well.com Message-Id: Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 15:58:45 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Miguel Marcos Subject: Master/Slave cdrom problem on install Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi. This is a question I hope I'm not repeating; my searches on freebsd.org and elsewhere have been fruitless. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 from CDs I purchased from WindRiver. I have a ThinkPad 600E currently running Windows 98. When I boot from the cdrom located in the laptop's internal bay (separate from the HD), an error appears. The command line reads that it cannot find out what device it is booting from. It reads as follows: "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 639kB/97088kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstap loader, Revision 0.8 (jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com, Sat Apr 21 08:46:19 GMT 2001) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. ok _" help tells me "Verbose help not available, etc." ? gives me all available commands. I've done an lsdev and ls and they both give the error "open '/' failed: input/output error I am aware from documentation about the need to check on the master/slave setting of the cdrom but I've been able to find out how to do this on further searches, even on IBM's support site. A stranger thing is that I *can* boot Debian Linux 2.2 cdrom and also the Win98 cdrom from the cdrom device. I also know about the alternative to boot from a floppy but, to make the situation especially, frustrating, the floppy device does not work correctly (can't initialize, recognize floppies in Explorer). I appreciate any help. Miguel -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message