From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 27 15:28:14 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E826DC8 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:28:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pd0-x22e.google.com (mail-pd0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22e]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C82AF1DA2 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f174.google.com with SMTP id 10so454243pdc.19 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:28:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=HHFbom/u8xVCkJ5r6ULoJkJgv93uot6ZzH4i6Cfm2Rc=; b=OAR6t6NBr8iTpT5xZ4OiQN/DAheo93CbgPfY9PcyXBv9+K5mpgx2BC/MHz7wQcYrAd rRvie/OTJ6xb8bsaqinj3SPY3/2H+fOzhn4FBAheXorEeARgkQ0U4AwRsjA90DZyULSk piG7emHwuedIL5jDbydofyhMTVSTAaNjEl0aqNS1Kwo6skcX9zv1wuvzt3hIAVzok8db LXVEMcGn1BSWZyTdV8gWYFJvfpAaOS0q1DoRQJb+VKiX3xpW3f+tn2YvCU1O1s+2BKL+ VOuJsbxfe3jEE6ladQQpMBKTuzXu81T0nSXYR9ytL5APv/NpcmxMfR284wQ4TeLYEB5I LV0w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.68.101.34 with SMTP id fd2mr6692763pbb.137.1372346894610; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.129.99 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:28:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201306271447.r5REks8P020192@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:28:14 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Julian H. Stacey" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:28:15 -0000 On 27 June 2013 11:11, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > > On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: >> >> 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. >> > > Is there perhaps a way to emulate a SCSI CD drive? > Those tend to work no matter what. > Aha, from install.txt: | CD-ROM drives: | Mitsumi CDROM drive with Mitsumi Controller | Most SCSI CD-ROM drives on a supported SCSI controller So I suppose no IDE. -- --