From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 18 2:46:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F59437B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:46:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from yori.schoko.org (yori.schoko.org [62.109.128.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2583943E4A for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:46:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@hollerith.net) Received: from schoko.org (alex@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yori.schoko.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9I9jfPd082468; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:45:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from alex@hollerith.net) From: "Alex Hollerith" To: "Kevin Oberman" , "Alex Hollerith" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: booting from cd-rom Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 11:45:41 +0200 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 +0200." <20021017205104.M1344@hollerith.net> <20021017211531.BC8AF5D03@ptavv.es.net> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 1.71 20020827 X-OriginatingIP: ::ffff:193.83.20.102 (alex) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:15:31 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote > > From: "Alex Hollerith" > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message