From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 2 9: 0:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.intop.net (smtp.intop.net [206.156.254.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A938B37B502 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 09:00:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from charlie (iwkcpe.intop.net [208.149.79.30]) by smtp.intop.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA22188; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:02:17 -0500 Message-Id: <200010021602.LAA22188@smtp.intop.net> From: "Charlie Schloemer" To: , "spencer" Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 11:03:24 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: help with cd-rom boot and install, strange problem In-reply-to: <003101c02c11$2ae21660$e5e80c18@spokn1.wa.home.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 1 Oct 00, at 18:35, spencer wrote: > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my computer which has a Compaq 2x dvd > drive/20x cdrom. The bios supports booting from the cd-rom, but when it > tries to boot from the cd I get this message: > > "boot from atapi cd-rom -failure" > "No /boot/loader" > > At first I thought FreeBSD just didn't support the drive, but then when I > made the boot floppies, and booted up that way, when it loaded the kernel, > it did detect the drive. But it won't let me install from it. What gives? Forgive me for asking the obvious, but... is it Disc #1 in the drive? Not all discs in the set are bootable, I think. That the error message references /boot/loader leads me to believe your BIOS is getting that error message of the boot blocks of that CD. -charlie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message