From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 6 20:45:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01864 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:45:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01857 for ; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:45:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA09860; Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:38:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd009855; Sun Jun 7 03:37:54 1998 Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 20:37:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Brian cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cd-rom In-Reply-To: <000701bd91bf$74ce4c60$279b13d0@brian> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG get net connected.... send a copy of the 'dmesg' outpu onto paper. compare this with what's shown during the boot that can't find the cdrom. of course it could just be that your SCSI adapter is being used by the BIOS for booting from the cdrom and is not supported from freebsd itself. (which doesn't use the BIOS) as you don't say what kind of hardware it's kind of hard to tell from here. :-) julian On Sat, 6 Jun 1998, Brian wrote: > Being new to freebsd I thought I would get a copy of 2.2.6 and install in on one of the machines we don't use often. Well, I can boot freebsd from the cd-rom but when i go to install, it cannot find the cd rom. This is a scsi yamaha cdr-100. > > Any inexpensive sugestions? > > Thanks > Brian Mead > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message