From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 12 18:26: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-30-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21F5614DBB for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 18:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id EAA01698; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 04:23:19 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199903130223.EAA01698@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: TRYING to install from Walnut Creek FreeBSD 3.1 CD....(HELP!) In-Reply-To: <199903130105.UAA23031@legba.pwrtc.com> from "Jon M. Craig" at "Mar 12, 99 08:06:02 pm" To: pazuzu@amphigory.com (Jon M. Craig) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 04:23:17 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message