Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 16:46:54 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0 Message-ID: <201306271447.r5REks8P020192@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:28:25 MDT." <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306270820200.1930@wonkity.com>
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Warren Block wrote: > Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here: > http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/ > > emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory, > but reports "no cdrom found". > > I managed to find a Pentium 4 system with a working floppy drive, found > a working disk, made the boot floppy, and then booted it. It boots and > reports the same thing. Putting the CD drive on a separate IDE bus or > as a secondary on the same bus as the hard drive makes no difference. > Chipset too new, maybe. > > Any ideas short of "find an original Pentium system that still works"? I recall FreeBSD CDROM images have had 2 different types of boot sequences, I think it matched evolving generations of BIOS support. The change was some years back. Maybe qemu only supports the newer of the 2 CD boot methods. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultant, Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, like a play script. Indent old text with "> ". Send plain text. No quoted-printable, HTML, base64, multipart/alternative.
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