Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 20:06:24 +0100 From: Rick Saltzman <rick@aixia.net> To: support@cdrom.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rick@aixia.net Subject: Booting from cdrom Message-ID: <199812031906.UAA07229@smtp.aixia.net>
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FreeBSD 2.2.7 Walnut Creek CDROM P2 with Adaptec SCSI AHA-2940AU BIOS SCSI ID:LUN 0:0 Micropolis (4GByte) SCSI ID:LUN 0:2 Pioneer CDROM DR-U06S It fails to boot from CDROM. Gets past the bios(es) and as far as: / And thats it. Just hangs forever. When I put an IDE cd drive in it works just fine. Is there a known problem with SCSI only boxes? There are several Adaptec parameters in the adaptec bios for booting which when modified do not change this behaviour. There are several selections in the Award Bios for boot sequence which do not change this either. I've read the web docs and news but don't see anything similar to my problem. All docs seem to say that SCSI just works which is true AFTER I've created a bootable hard disk. Then I can mount cdroms to my hearts content. But I cannot boot from the distribution boot cd except if my drive is an IDE. Rick Saltzman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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