Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:50:31 -0800 (PST) From: Nihilist <e_nihilist@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.x-R CDROM Installation Hang Message-ID: <20031121095031.60594.qmail@web21508.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.1-R from the official 4 CD set. The problem I'm about to describe occurs with 5.0-R too. Incidentally, everything is fine with the 4.x-R CDs (no hang, no lsdev problem, perfect installation). I insert the first CD and the loader kicks in. It doesn't matter whether or not ACPI is enabled (which my system supports); I get the same result either way: the box hangs after the little spinning bar, which appears after the 5.1 menu (or after the 'boot' command from the loader prompt), has spun a few times. No error messages, no copyright + kernel banner, nothing. This occurs in all boot modes... default, no acpi, safe, single user. I've tried playing with BIOS settings. I've tried dropping to the loader prompt (5.1 menu option 6) and playing with device hints via the 'show' and 'set' commands, but all the generic settings (irqs, ports, etc.) seem to be fine. One thing to note is that issuing 'lsdev' at the loader prompt causes a reboot, apparently after it tries to gather information about BIOS Disk 2 (which seems to be the CDROM). This is strange because it has already reported on the CDROM as cd0. BTX reports: cd0 = CDROM Bios Disk 0 = floppy disk (A) Bios Disk 1 = hard disk (C) Bios Disk 2 = CDROM (D) Notice the overlap for CDROM. The 'lsdev' reboot seems to occur when it tries to check the CDROM a second time. The parameters 'currdev' and 'loaddev' have the default value 'cd0:'. Changing 'currdev' to 'disk2:' and typing 'boot' causes an abrupt reboot. This seems to further indicate that the problem lies in the drive assignment somewhere. I have the hard disk attached to IDE#1 Primary. The ATAPI CDROM is attached to IDE#2 Slave. I can't boot from floppies and try to install from the CD because I get a read error with kern.flp (that was dd'd or fdimage'd). I've never encountered problems so early in the installation process before. Any help in solving this nightmare is appreciated. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/
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