From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 9 6:16:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A1037B401 for ; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 06:16:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id PAA23340; Sun, 9 Sep 2001 15:25:17 +0200 Message-ID: <3B9B6B9A.7020108@i-clue.de> Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 15:16:10 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010905 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexandre =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E9ry=2Fdgt=2Fsct?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting the CD-ROM = read error References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alexandre Déry/dgt/sct wrote: >Hi there ! > >Completely new to FreeBSD, I'm a linux guy (mainly Slackware.... I like the >hard way .. ;) > >I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 from CDROM (burned from ISO). > >The machine is a dual P-233MMX, 384mb ram, 2 scsi disks (with NT4 on first >disk). > >The board is an Intel DK440LX, scsi controler embeded (aic-7895) > >IDE CDROM, Master on 2nd IDE Bus > >Planning to install FreeBSD on 2nd disk (where linux still is...) > >I boot from the cdrom, and the only thing it says is 'Read Error'. Nothing >else. > >I've been able to boot that CD on many other pcs just fine.... and I've >read the cd with NT... works well... so the CDROM itself doesn't seem to be >the problem here... > >Lilo is still installed on mbr... is that a problem ? > Depending on the version you are trying to install and the hardware involved, there may be several problems. - The CD-ROM drive is maybe not fully ATAPI compatible - You got an older FreeBSD CD-ROM, wich seeks only at disk 0 slave for the CD-ROM drive Try to reconnect your CDROM as ata 0 slave. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message