Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 15:40:06 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <freebsd@sasknow.com> To: Ralph Bunce <Ralph@omnianswers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10002161528570.71875-100000@sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <7935098934EFD111A9D500A0C99843F106B978@PEBBLES>
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Ralph Bunce wrote: > Hello. > > I am currently trying to install FreeBSD 3.4 on a "white box" clone > system. It gets to the point to where I select the installation method > and it will not let me install from CD-ROM. It says that it could not > detect a CD-ROM drive. How is this possible, when I booted from the CD > and started the install from the CD? Your BIOS might drive a CD that your OS doesn't by the same way it is possible for one to wake up in the morning with a brain that obviously works, yet still have no idea how it functions internally. Your BIOS knows how to interact with your CD-ROM drive far enough to read the boot image and continue the boot process. FreeBSD needs to know a little bit more detail about your CD-ROM drive. Enter: CD-ROM drivers :-) > > Please advise as to what steps to tkae to get FreeBSD to recognize > my CD-ROM drive. I am going to assume for the moment that the CD-ROM is an ATAPI unit (i.e., connects to an IDE channel, therefore is NOT SCSI, or external/parallel/proprietary). In that case, be sure that you have everything cabled correctly inside the case. For example, if the CD is the only drive on the IDE channel, be sure that it is jumpered as a SINGLE drive, and not as a master or a slave. If the CD shares a channel with a HDD, it should generally be the slave, and be placed in the middle cable position (with one end connecting to the motherboard/IO card, and the other end connecting to the master unit HDD). Many an install have failed because of simple cable/jumpering problems, so it never hurts to verify that they are correct. (And, "It works in Windows" does NOT constitute a correct setup :-) So, after my somewhat superficial tirade on proper hardware installation, if this is indeed an IDE drive, it should come up as acd0a or possibly acd0c in your dmesg output. Please include your full dmesg output (this is the output that happens right after you perform the kernel config when booting from the install CD, up to the point where the root device is selected and the filesystems are fsck'ed. If possible, cut and paste the output into an email message. If that is not possible, please copy the information VERY CAREFULLY and include ALL the output, even if it doesn't seem immediately relevant). > It is a Delta IDE 48x Model #: OIP-CD4800A I have never heard of this unit before. Perhaps someone else on the list has had good or bad experiences? -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> 50% Owner, Sysadmin SaskNow Technologies http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E Saskatoon, SK S7H 0W2 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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