Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 09:40:31 -0800 From: Eric Von Dollen <evondollen@earthlink.net> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Message-ID: <01BE19EA.0FB4C760@1Cust214.tnt22.sfo3.da.uu.net>
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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
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