Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2000 01:59:04 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FW: re: FreeBSD installation problems.... Message-ID: <200001090059.BAA72295@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <858gcr$121k$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Doug Richardson <electmus@nb.sympatico.ca> wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> I'm having a problem getting the Walnut Creek FreeBSD 3.3 to recognize my
> ATAPI (Ide) 50X cdrom. I can start the install by directly booting the cdrom
> but during the installation just after package selection and partitioning it
> asks where you want to start the install from,??? I select the cdrom, then
> I'm told that one has not been detected?????? Kinda weird considering that
> very cdrom drive is where it started intallation from. Any ideas on this one
> would be appreciated, I have tried the hardware faqs and the newsgroups but
> no luck as yet. I have used various Linux distributions for two years but
> have not seen this problem before. Have registered product............
Please tell us about your hardware configuration, exactly.
What IDE/ATAPI devices do you have, and how are they connected,
i.e. which controller (primary, secondary), which device
(master, slave).
Obviously, FreeBSD does not recognize your CD-ROM drive for
some reason. This can happen if you have an illegal IDE setup,
for example if the CD-ROM drive is a slave on the secondary
controller without a master device on the same controller.
Linux can recognize such ill-configured systems and works
around it, but FreeBSD is more picky and strictly conforms to
the standard.
By the way, it is not that surpsising that you could boot into
the installation, even though FreeBSD itself did not recognize
the CD-ROM drive. The boot process is handled by your PC's
BIOS (firmware), not by FreeBSD.
Regards
Oliver
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