From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 27 09:45:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA11162 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:45:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA11154 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:45:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evondollen@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Received: from 1Cust214.tnt22.sfo3.da.uu.net (1Cust214.tnt22.sfo3.da.uu.net [208.254.230.214]) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.8.7/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA25351 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:45:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 1Cust214.tnt22.sfo3.da.uu.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BE19EA.0FB4C760@1Cust214.tnt22.sfo3.da.uu.net>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:41:08 -0800 Message-ID: <01BE19EA.0FB4C760@1Cust214.tnt22.sfo3.da.uu.net> From: Eric Von Dollen To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:40:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Over the past three years I've attempted to install FreeBSD on three machines. The first two installed relatively painlessly and served me faithfully and well. I'm having a much harder time with the latest install and am hoping you can give me some suggestions. I am trying to install the latest 3.0 release to a 450 Mhz Pentium II Micron Millenia with a 10 Gb disk on the primary master IDE and a Sony CDROM drive on the primary slave IDE, I believe. Windows98 and Windows NT install from CD and operate without problem. I have tried most permutations and combinations of installation and have run through the installation prodedures more than ten times. Invariably, whether I boot from floppy or boot from CD (both get me started) installation fails at the Choose Installation Media screen when I select CDROM as the media. The failure message is the "Message: No CDROM devices found ... ". I have tried minimal and maximal device configurations for both scenarios with the same result. The only thing that appears fishy is a long pause (~20 seconds) at: wd0 probed - 9671 Mb and a longer pause (>1 minute) immediately following at: wdc1 at 0x170-0x177 irq 15 on isa The probe dialog panel displays for about five seconds as the disk rumbles immediately following this. I have twiddled an awful lot with usrconfig to no avail. Can you give me some hints? Am I out of luck with the Millenia (specs at www.micronpc.com). It seems weird that I can boot off the CD but not read it later. I read through the FAQS at freebsd.org with no luck on this problem. Am I missing something? Thank you for your help, Eric Von Dollen evondollen@earthlink.net (925)947-6618 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message