Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:39:56 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> To: Fernando =?iso-8859-1?Q?Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems Message-ID: <20070928163956.GF24834@tcbug.org> In-Reply-To: <1bd550a00709280856q42a98284hcf8b5da33098babe@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Fernando Apestegua wrote: > Hi all, > > This is my very first post in this list, so I beg for your patience :) > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on an IBM Netfinity 5000. I have the > two CD's set. > The machine uses a IDE DVD drive, and 5 SCSI disks. > > I boot the machine and the CD starts to boot. I select the FreeBSD > normal booting. Everything seems to be fine. I can see the messages > about the detected devices (BIOS CDROM is cd0 and so on...) > > I start the installation, The disks are detected, I set up my > partitions and then I select the CD/DVD media installation... and then > I get a No CD/DVD drive is present. > > The drive is working in terms of hardware (I can run several live CD > linux distros for example) and then access the CD as usual. How is it > possible that after booting with FreeBSD the sysinstall (?) program > doesn't detect the cd? > > Thanks in advance freebsd-questions@ is a better list for this, but the long and short of it is the system's BIOS has boot support for the cdrom, but FreeBSD for whatever reason doesn't have a driver for either the CDROM drive, or more likely, the IDE controller itself. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG/S5cJvkB8SevrssRAuF6AJ90472gBu1o9eyhvv84NkNBDqdszgCfdZ8E VjgOYzI+JclvykajX9Li1B0= =/LO7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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