Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:48:14 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, disposable42-fm@yahoo.com Subject: Re: CD device no longer works in new FreeBSD releases? Message-ID: <200603151048.16132.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060315101058.25297.qmail@web52514.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20060315101058.25297.qmail@web52514.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Wednesday 15 March 2006 05:10, disposable42-fm@yahoo.com wrote: > Hi guys, > > Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I've been trying > to get FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE working on a laptop, a Compaq Armada V300. > I boot the installation off the CD drive, go through the setup process > fine, but when I have to choose the installation method, it reports `No CD > devices found!'. Disabling ACPI didn't do anything, either. > I remembered I had an old FreeBSD 4.10 disk lying around, so I gave that a > go as a last resort, and lo and behold, it worked- it installed everything > off the first CD. Haven't tried 5.x, I assume the latest release would > support the most hardware. > > Were some drivers removed after 4.x, or isn't the installer detecting the > CDROM? Is there any way to fix this, or should I stick to 4.x (or, eek, > Linux)? It's a `CRN-8241B' if that helps, but anything that turns up on > Google seems to be about 4.x, and works fine. > > > Thanks in advance, but apologies if I've posted to the wrong place. Would you be able to capture the dmesg from the 6.0 kernel using a serial console or some other means? Also, would you be able to provide a dmesg from the 4.x kernel? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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