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Subject: Re: CD Not Recognized after initial screen at install
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I've only got the one drive in their. I think there is a setup issue 
with the drive. The message MODE_SENSE_BIG timeout occurs on acd0 when 
the installation program starts. Does this ring any bells with anyone?

Thanks for the help so far.

Dave

Daniela wrote:

>On Thursday 15 January 2004 15:25, David Armstrong wrote:
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>>Hi FreeBSD Folks,
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>>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.
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>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
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