From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 11:34:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42DD916A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:34:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailso02.liwest.at (lilzmailso02.liwest.at [212.33.55.24]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 54BC043D54 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:34:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm58-27.liwest.at ([212.33.58.27]) by lilzmailso02.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AhDGR-0007iA-Eo; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:34:47 +0100 From: Daniela To: David Armstrong , FreeBSD Questions Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:32:01 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <4006B0EE.5040205@tiscali.de> In-Reply-To: <4006B0EE.5040205@tiscali.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401152032.01744.dgw@liwest.at> Subject: Re: CD Not Recognized after initial screen at install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:34:49 -0000 On Thursday 15 January 2004 15:25, David Armstrong wrote: > Hi FreeBSD Folks, > > I'm installing FreeBSD and, although the installation can boot from the > CD, when I select a CD/DVD as the installation source, it says it can't > find the CD. Obviously, the BIOS can read the CD because it booted from > it, but apparently FreeBSD seems to be unable to see it. I had this too. In my case there were 2 drives and they were swapped, i.e. the first one was acd1, and the second one acd0. I tried for several hours with both drives and had already started to pull my hair out when I found the solution. Daniela