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Date:      Thu, 7 Sep 2000 18:48:17 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Rick Hamell <hamellr@heorot.1nova.com>
To:        SoftGuitar@aol.com
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Not able to boot (was: Re: dos floppies)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009071842510.9466-100000@heorot.1nova.com>
In-Reply-To: <66.73f267e.26eaecdb@aol.com>

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	Please keep freebsd-questions in the loop... 

>    I have a IDE hard drive and when I sign on it says it can not read my CD 
> ROM, Floppy or SCSI......I do not even have a SCSI.
> Where do I find my disk controller ?? and how would I configure it to be 
> read. or probed as BSD was telling me 

	Is your IDE controller built onto the motherboard... or is it a
card? If it's onboard, barring IRQ conflicts, it should be
auto-detected. If you try to install off of the floppy disks (kern.flp and
mfsroot.flp,) does it finish all the way?

>    I know it is hard to answer newbie questions but it is because we do not 
> even know what to ask...........sorry for my inexperience. I want to be good 
> but I'm on the first rung of this ladder.


						Rick



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