Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:45:41 +0200 From: "Alex Hollerith" <alex@hollerith.net> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>, "Alex Hollerith" <alex@hollerith.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from cd-rom Message-ID: <20021018094541.M87401@hollerith.net> In-Reply-To: <20021017211531.BC8AF5D03@ptavv.es.net> References: Your message of "Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:51:04 %2B0200." <20021017205104.M1344@hollerith.net> <20021017211531.BC8AF5D03@ptavv.es.net>
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On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:15:31 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote
> > From: "Alex Hollerith" <alex@hollerith.net>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:51:04 +0200
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > i'm trying to boot and install freebsd 4.7 from cd-rom on my laptop.
> > the loader stops with "can't work out...".
> >
> > is there a way (e.g. by setting loader parameters) to get things
> > going or should i just give up?
>
> You did not give us much to go on. Model of laptop and details on the
> full message would help a bit.
>
> If the laptop has a floppy, you might want to try booting that way
> and seeing if the kernel on the floppy can talk to the CD. If so,
> you can just tell it to install from the CD.
Thanks for your mail.
It is a no-name Laptop. Some Details:
CD-ROM: QSI DVD-ROM SDR-081
HardDisk: FUJITSU MHR2020AT
IEEE-1394 Host-Controller: NEC OHCI compliant
NIC: SiS 900 based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
It has no Floppy... and Windows XP is installed
The Loader Stops with:
Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
Guessed BIOS device 0x0 not found by probes, defautling to disk0:
[...]
can't load 'kernel'
can't load 'kernel.old'
lsdev and show output:
ok lsdev
cd @ 0xff2c
disk @ 0xef38
disk0: BIOS drive C:
disk0s1: Unknown fs: 0x7
pxe @ 0xd6b0
ok show
LINES=24
console=vidconsole
currdev=disk0s4a
interpret=ok
loaddev=disk0s4a
promt=${interpret}
ok
alex
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