From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 12 19:41:34 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id TAA01010 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:41:34 -0700 Received: from CPVA.SAIC.COM (cpva.SAIC.COM [139.121.17.1]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id TAA00987 ; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:41:28 -0700 From: matt@merkury Received: from merkury.Merkury.saic.com ([139.121.102.61]) by CPVA.SAIC.COM with SMTP; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:42:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by merkury.Merkury.saic.com (5.x/SMI-SVR4) id AA02315; Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:37:38 -0700 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 19:09:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: 2.0.5 circus mystery To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: bugs@freebsd.org Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi hackers. My name is Matt Harrigan. I recently obtained a copy of 2.0.5 for installation via CD-ROM, but soon came to realize it would not be as easy as I thought. Essentially the problem lies in that when the kernel boots from my cdrom, and the menu system comes up, the CDROM busy light just stays on. I go to the "installtion media" selection menu to select cdrom, and it tells me I have no cdrom drive. I then proceeded to boot with "fbsdboot -c -D kernel" to go to the config menu, so I can statically set the io port address of my cdrom. the cdrom I am using is a 4x speed TEAC which is panasonic compatible, and according to your installation instructions, should be dynmically detected and setup properly on its own. While in the config menu, I set the io port address to 220, which it is in DOS. I.E. - " config> port matcd0 0x220 " Now it does not appear to find the drive at all! So I reboot, re-enter config, and do a "port matcd0 0x230", and this seems to work for a minute, but then locks up, exactly like when it is dynamically assigned by the kernel. I am not running anything strange. I have two hard disks, one connor 327 mb with a dos partition that has almost nothing on it except for the drivers to load the cdrom and the drivers to load my sound card. The other is a 1.2GB seagate. It is empty. The cdrom drive is using its own drivers in dos, but is connected to a soundblaster AWE 32. I have tried disabling every other device that is "not found" at kernel boot. I have set my cdrom/sound card to a different IO address (240) I have prayed. I am not religious. I have asked my dog. He wont tell me what Im doing wrong. Ghandi didnt return any of my calls. The pope is touring europe or something. Aerosmith said "Free bee what?" I rubbed the magic lamp, but Robin Williams came out and told me to go buy bsdi. Billy Idol, the self proclaimed cyberpunk was unavaiable for comment. Help me. Im shrinking. Matthew G. Harrigan Information Systems Engineer SAIC 619-552-4656