Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:53:38 -0800 From: Jonathan Hahn <hahn@and.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hahn@and.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting off TORiSAN CDROM Message-ID: <199801160253.SAA06214@and.com>
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I solved my own problem, but thanks for the help. I had the floppy drive in the notebook itself, and the CDROM drive in the port replicator. Shame on me. From the FreeBSD boot floppy, you can't access or boot off the CDROM if it's installed in the port replicator. I just got to wits' end and started trying random stuff. -jon > From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 15:22:33 1998 > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 1998 15:07:46 -0800 > From: Jonathan Hahn <hahn@and.com> > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Booting off TORiSAN CDROM > Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > I recently purchased a Sony VAIO 707C laptop and this is my first > laptop FreeBSD install. It has a 14.5X TORiSAN CDROM, which I > gather is made by Sanyo. I can't boot off the CDROM drive, nor > access it if I boot FreeBSD off floppy. Am I SOL here? I don't > see the TORiSAN mentioned in any of the FreeBSD docs. > > Windows says it's a CDR_U112 CD-ROM and that no driver is installed > for it. > > My question is how to proceed now. I could purchase a PCMCIA SCSI > or ethernet controller and boot off a SCSI CDROM or over the net. > Will I be able to access either of these cards from a generic > kernel? Last resort is a floppy install, or am I overlooking > something?
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