From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 28 17:17:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post3.fast.net (post3.fast.net [209.92.1.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5236E37B407 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 17:17:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from slafredo@fast.net) Received: from localhost (dslcv1-475.fast.net [209.92.41.221]) by post3.fast.net (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA25803; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:17:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200106290017.UAA25803@post3.fast.net> Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:17:35 -0400 From: S Lafredo Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD using floppies (long) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG To: "Robert L Sowders" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.388) In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v388) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, June 28, 2001, at 02:21 AM, Robert L Sowders wrote: > Has the cdrom ever been able to boot anything? If not check your bios > config to see if it is an option as a boot device. Yes, it can boot Windows CDs and the restore CD. > In the past the to boot from a freebsd cd, the cd had to be a slave on > the > primary IDE channel. Don't know if this is still the case. Cannot do this. > You should not have to remove anything from the default kernel to get > the > machine up and running. Are you getting to the sysinstall installation > screen? Yes, this is where I see the conflicts. > The install has to get to the sysinstall screens before it even tries > to access the cdrom. > > Don't configure the kernel, and while it is loading the kernel, watch > for > atapci0 and acd0, the acd0 or acd1 will be your cdrom. If you see this > then the kernel saw your cdrom. OK, it looks like it saw the CD-ROM... atapci0: port )xfe80-0xfe8f at device 8.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 atapci0 ata0: at 0x170 irq 15 atapci0 > If you have internet access you don't need the cd anyway, you can > install > via ftp, if you can get to the sysinstall screens. On the main screen > choose "Standard" and it will walk you through the rest. I tried Standard. In fact I re-imaged the kern disk. Booted the kernal, hit return at the first screen and what I have written next happens. > ahc0: port 0x1200-0x12ff mem > 0x8000000-0x8000fff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 > aic7880: Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > pci0: at 19.0 This information is displayed the floppy light is lit but I do not hear it or the CD being accessed and then nothing else happens? Thanks. S To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message