From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 12:26:52 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00151 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:26:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA00139 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:26:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id MAA01134; Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:26:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 12:26:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Andrzej Popielewicz cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: cdrom In-Reply-To: <01BBC3F8.A4CC9FC0@ppp-cen51.poznan.tpnet.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Andrzej Popielewicz wrote: > I have problems in installing FreeBsd 2.1.5, because generic kernel on > boot.flp does not support IDE ATAPI Cdrom and seems to have problems > with EIDE Western Digital drive. It does; FreeBSD is rather picky about where it expects it. The 'hot spot' is the slave drive on the primary controller. Try putting the CDROm there. > Motherboard PCI SOYO 27B2, very good > board, Win95 does not hang, DOS or Linux RedHat Picasso(kernel 2.0.0) > have no problems.I suggest to prepare more general generic kernel. Can you be more specific about the problems you're having with the disk? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major