Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 04:23:17 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@nordier.com> To: pazuzu@amphigory.com (Jon M. Craig) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TRYING to install from Walnut Creek FreeBSD 3.1 CD....(HELP!) Message-ID: <199903130223.EAA01698@ceia.nordier.com> In-Reply-To: <199903130105.UAA23031@legba.pwrtc.com> from "Jon M. Craig" at "Mar 12, 99 08:06:02 pm"
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> I have the Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD 3.1 CD, and I'm trying to install
> from it, and I'm having major problems.
>
> The first is that I can't install from the CD itself. If I pick CDROM as a
> media type, the install says "No CDROM devices found" (EVEN HOUGH I BOOTED
> THE INSTALL FROM CD!). Further checking (using scroll-lock and up arrow)
> shows that "wdc1 not found at 0x170". Odd... Using Win98 System Info it
> shows secondary IDE at IRQ 15 addr 0x170. And that's where my CDROM is,
> and it works.
This is not quite as strange as it may seem. Booting from CD makes use
of the PC BIOS, but FreeBSD itself, like other 32-bit OSes, uses its
own CD-ROM device drivers. In all probability, the configuration can
be changed so that the CD-ROM drive is detected, but I'd suggest we
concentrate on just getting the machine booting, for the moment.
> Well then ok... I try installing from my Win98 partition. The booklet
> with the CD mentions a "setup.exe" that will copy the dists for me, but
> that doesn't exist, so fine, I manually copy the ENTIRE CDROM to
> C:\FREEBSD\, then boot the install, picking MS-DOS partition as the media.
The setup.exe program is now obsolete, and was dropped from the
distribution around the time of the 3.1 release. I believe the text
file used in printing the booklet has since been revised to reflect
this.
> That seems to work fine - BUT - when I get the boot menu it lists F1-DOS
> and F2-FreeBSD. If I hit F2 the machine simply beeps. Does nothing. F1
> boots Win98 as expected.
>
> Soooooo... What do I need to do to get this puppy working?
I'd suggest you try booting from the CD again, and then hit the space
bar at the stage where you see a countdown to an automatic boot. This
should give you an interactive prompt. Part of the displayed info
should contain lines like
BIOS drive C: is disk2
Try entering
boot disk2s2a:/kernel
though (because booting from CD-ROM shifts the drive assignments
around) you may have to substitute (say) "disk1" or "disk3" for the
"disk2" portion of the command.
That should get you a login prompt. Let us know either way, and we
can take it from there.
--
Robert Nordier
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