From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 8: 2:23 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED2637B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:02:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9467043F85 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:02:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with ESMTP id <2003020616021905200hrku5e>; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:02:19 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h16G2I79010541 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:02:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h16G2IVL010538; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:02:18 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to boot 5.0-R CD error References: <20030205074909.Y92155@www.gotbrains.org> <44y94tmnqe.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030206094607.W68795@www.gotbrains.org> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 06 Feb 2003 11:02:18 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030206094607.W68795@www.gotbrains.org> Message-ID: <44smv1mm7p.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 43 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Stephen Cravey writes: > So is there a known problem that nobody is going to fix or are you just > trying to get me installed in the interim? I've already done the floppy > install. What I'm trying to do is see if anyone is aware of the problem > before I submit a PR. I have no idea if it's a known problem. However, there was no way to tell from what you posted. It wasn't clear if the floppy install *would* work, it wasn't clear if the CD drive worked with production- quality releases of FreeBSD, and I don't use 5.0 myself yet, so I wasn't comfortable going into detail. You really need to take problems with 5.x to the -current mailing list before posting a PR. > -Stephen > > On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > Stephen Cravey writes: > > > > > I'm getting an error when trying to boot any of the 5.0-RELEASE cd's > > > something like: > > > > > > CD Loader 1.01 > > > Building txxx boot loader arguments > > > Could not find primary volume descriptor > > > > > > > > > and then it dies there. txxx is illegible in my notes, but somehow I don't > > > think that is significant. When booting from floppy, I have to install > > > additional drivers from the driver floppy to be able to install from CD. > > > > > > The device line from dmesg after installation is: > > > > > > acd0: CDROM at ata1-master PIO3 > > > > > > I have a vague recollection of a problem similar to this sometime in the > > > 4.x tree, but specifics totally escape me. > > > > If you can boot from floppy, do that. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message