From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 18 04:55:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA05796 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 04:55:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA05789 for ; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 04:55:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id NAA05415; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:55:39 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id NAA19422; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:53:07 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1 (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id NAA27744; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:35:57 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr by telss1 (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA24424; Fri, 18 Dec 98 13:41:05 +0100 Received: from localhost by telspace.alcatel.fr with SMTP (1.40.112.12/16.2) id AA037974394; Fri, 18 Dec 1998 13:33:14 +0100 X-Openmail-Hops: 1 Date: Fri, 18 Dec 98 13:32:59 +0100 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981218010832.007c0270@customcpu.com> Subject: Re : Booting from Mitsumi Cd-Rom 34x Mime-Version: 1.0 To: al7oj@customcpu.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; name="Re" Content-Disposition: inline; filename="Re" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, In a few words : booting from a CD-ROM is a kludge and is not guaranteed to work (due to odd combinations of the BIOS, the chipset, and the boot image at the beginning of the CD). So : one guaranteed way to boot FreeBSD is from a diskette (on which you have written the boot image) and then to install from the CD. TfH > I took my new 3.0-R cd down to the computer store and tried different > Cd-Rom drives till I found a brand that would boot FreeBSD from the CD. > Several did and one of them is Mitsumi FX3400S!B. I bought a new one (same > thing), took it home and installed the CD Drive onto my Aptiva E-26. After > running Win95 and testing the new drive, I did a soft reboot with the new > 3.0-R CD in the drive. It didn't boot (kernel not found). > I then rebooted into Win95, accessed the CD, and did soft reboot again. > This time, I booted FreeBSD from the HD. Not only did fbsd not find the > CD-Rom, the probe said there was nothing at the 170 address! > What am I missing? > I also did a cold reboot, booted from the HD with -c and then quit and let > the probing start. Still nothing. > Any help would be appreciated ie I can't really take the Mitsumi back. > Mike > > __________________________________________________________ > OS of CHOICE? UNIX (FreeBSD), LINUX (Debian), and OS/2Warp > al7oj@customcpu.com > al7oj@al7oj.ampr.org or al7oj@al7oj.#nak.ak.usa.noam > http://www.customcpu.com/personal/al7oj/ > > __________________________________________________________ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message