Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:33:30 -0400 From: Ed Sutherland <digital@twcny.rr.com> To: Peter Grehan <grehan@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD from CD Message-ID: <412D5A0A.7030603@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <412D539A.4060200@freebsd.org> References: <412CE7D8.5070805@twcny.rr.com> <1093463741.14988.6.camel@schemer> <412D485B.3020105@twcny.rr.com> <412D539A.4060200@freebsd.org>
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Hi Peter, I've tried booting three times -- every time there is no 'acd0' listed. While my USB ports and printer are recognized, only my hard disk is seen -- no CD, I get this line during boot: ad0: 19536MB .... at at0-master BIOSPIO These boots have been reboot from Mac OSX with the C key held down and all the way until the 'mountroot>' prompt. I've also tried booting the CD, halting the process before it hits the kernel and issuing the 'setcurrdev=cd;,' and 'boot -s' commands from the OpenFirmware prompt. When I enter "cd9660:acd0" at the mountroot> prompt, I get this message: Can't allocate root mount for filesystems cd9600: 19 Root mount failed: 19 What's my next move? I like the look of FreeBSD and want to see more. Thanks. Ed Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Ed, > >> Okay. I booted from the cd and it stopped at the 'mountroot>' prompt. >> What do I enter here -- it is supposed to take the form of >> 'cd9660:acd0' but there isn't any such device. Should this be my Mac >> partition, my Linux partition (which I'll convert to FreeBSD), or my >> CDROM? And how (from Mac OS X) do I determine what I need to enter? > > > You've got it right; you should be able to enter 'cd9660:acd0' at > the mountroot prompt. Actually, you should be able to hold down the > 'c' key at boot time with that CD image. > > The acd0 ATA CDROM should show up in the boot log on your screen > just before the mountroot prompt. This is what it looks like on my > eMac: > > ... > gem0: Ethernet address: 00:03:93:a4:36:fe > gem0: [GIANT-LOCKED] > sc0: <System console> on nexus0 > sc0: Unknown <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec > ad0: 39073MB <Maxtor 4D040H2> [79387/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO > ATAPI_RESET time = 580us > acd0: CDRW <SONY CD-RW CRX170E> at ata1-master BIOSPIO > > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > eg. ufs:/dev/da0a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > > mountroot> > > It's shorthand to put 'acd0' instead of '/dev/acd0' as in the > mountroot text, but it'll still work. > > Are you seeing the disks probed correctly ? > > later, > > Peter. > > >
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