From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 16:37: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.xnet.com (quake.xnet.com [198.147.221.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC1EB14BDD for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 16:36:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drwho@xnet.com) Received: from xnet.com (drwho@typhoon.xnet.com [198.147.221.70]) by mail.xnet.com (8.8.6/XNet-3.0R) with ESMTP id SAA15734 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:36:39 -0600 (CST) Received: (from drwho@localhost) by xnet.com (8.8.6/XNet-3.0C) id SAA15106 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:36:37 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:36:37 -0600 From: drwho To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD Boot problem: 3.1-R Message-ID: <19990401183637.A14157@typhoon.xnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG When attempting to boot from CDROM (it's a Toshiba SCSI CDROM), the boot loaded begins, but when it starts to load the kernel, it fails and complains that it cannot find the kernel. Running "ls" at the boot prompt returns a message about "/: no such file or directory". I seem to recall it mentioned something about "device not configured", too... To me, this could only mean that it doesn't see my cdrom, but if that's the case, then how did it begin the boot process? Also, it has been said that the typical Toshiba SCSI CDROM should have no problem being recognized. I also attempted a CD boot on another machine with a cheesy, but compatible, IDE CDROM, and it too failed -- however, it didn't get quite so far. Does this mean there's a problem with the boot sector on the Walnut Creek 3.1-RELEASE CD? I have not yet attempted to install via floppy-boot, to see if it will read the CDROM... I'll try that later... but I would like to know if there's any reason why the CD boot should fail...? -- Fight email spam: http://www.cauce.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message