Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 10:03:23 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Greenwood" <k_greenwood1@yahoo.com> To: Louis-Serge Bouchard <louis@Princeton.EDU> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with atapi cdrom Message-ID: <20010615170323.41163.qmail@web14105.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10106151019500.20785-100000@yuma.Princeton.EDU>
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First off, your system has to have dual IDE channels (and you have a second IDE cable available). If this is the case, you're set. Your hard-drive would be jumpered to master on channel 1 (ide0). CDROM would be master on channel 2 (ide1). Next, when you enter the bios (on an old 486 dx4-100 award- it's "Standard CMOS Setup"), your hard-drive has to be specified (correctly of course), but nothing should be required for the secondary master. If your system has any advanced IDE configurations, try setting it to default. I really don't know what kind of settings you will have. After FreeBSD boots up I generally go into kernel configuration with full screen visual. At this point you have a nice little list. Under storage I generally remove all scsi and leave in only ata0, ata1, and fdc0. I also, generally, remove all nics because I use either ep (3com 3c509's) or PCI nics. Up to you though. And of course I remove the pcic0 (PCMCIA controller) because I got no notebook. After you Quit and accept the settings as is, it should go to the sysinstall main menu . If you hit Scroll Lock you should be able to scroll up and see if you have a acd0 device. Hopefully you can run a standard install at this point. Good luck. K. Greenwood --- Louis-Serge Bouchard <louis@Princeton.EDU> wrote: > Thanks for your msg. > > > First, are you booting from CDRom, or from floppy? > I > > really don't know if a pentium 100 would even > support > > bootable cd media. > > No it doesn't- I have to boot from floppy. > > > Have you tried setting up the CDRom as master on > the > > secondary IDE channel? I once upon a time had a > beast > > of a time with a specific cdrom set as the slave. > > Can you tell me how you did this? In the bios I see > only one component > attached to my IDE, and that is the HD. The CDROM > does not show up > anywhere. Are both the HD and CDROM controlled by > the same IDE channel, > or are they on separate channels (d0,d1) ? In the > userconfig I have d0 > and d1 enabled- would I need to choose only d0 for > both (doesn't make > sense to me)? > > Louis __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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