Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 11:41:22 -0800 From: Eric Von Dollen <evondollen@earthlink.net> To: "'Ken McKittrick'" <agent47@mail.baldcom.net> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: CDrom needs to be master on 2nd IDE channel Message-ID: <01BE19FA.F155C100@1Cust114.tnt4.sfo3.da.uu.net>
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Ken, Thank you very much for your response. And I apologize that I am not a BIOS expert. Could you give me a little more detail on how to configure the second IDE channel for CDROM? My system is running Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG, Micron BIOS Version 2.2. The BIOS setup menu has the following options: STANDARD CMOS SETUP INTEGRATE PERIPHERALS BIOS FEATURES SETUP SUPERVISOR PASSWORD CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP USER PASSWORD POWER MANAGEMENT SETUP IDE HDD AUTO DETECTION PNP/PCI CONFIGURATION SAVE & EXIT SETUP LOAD BIOS DEFAULTS EXIT WITHOUT SAVING LOAD SETUP DEFAULTS The STANDARD CMOS SETUP OPTION appears to define the necessary information with defaults at the section: HARD DISKS TYPE SIZE CYLS HEAD PRCOMP LANZ SECTOR MODE PRIMARY MASTER AUTO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO PRIMARY SLAVE AUTO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO SECONDARY MASTER AUTO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO SECONDARY SLAVE AUTO 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 AUTO Each of the hard disk options has three alternatives for type: AUTO, USER, NONE. To force the CD to act as secondary master I changed the type for the PRIMARY SLAVE and SECONDARY SLAVE to NONE. I could still boot Windows 98 and NT successfully but the "CDROM not found" message still occurs when attempting to install FreeBSD even though I have successfully booted from CDROM. The BIOS options appear to be a large state machine and before I run out all the alternatives I thought I would ask you for more hints. Can you recommend any? If you would prefer to recommend some BIOS technical references for me to study so that your time is not overutilized, I am happy to pursue them. Thank you again, Eric Von Dollen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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