From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 18 19: 7: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from precipice.4gh.net (washdc3-ar2-182-026.elnk.dsl.gtei.net [4.43.182.26]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 135A537B403; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 19:06:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (stuartb@localhost) by precipice.4gh.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5J26LO76987; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:06:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from stuartb@4gh.net) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:06:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Stuart Barkley To: "Bruce A. Mah" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RFC: Errata on CDROM installs (was Re: ATA Atapi 4.6 Release) In-Reply-To: <200206182344.g5INiNXd037143@intruder.bmah.org> Message-ID: <20020618215318.G76898-100000@precipice.4gh.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > Could someone tell me if this actually works or not? I have never > seen the problem first-hand, so some of you folks who've actually > experienced it need to say if I've got it right or not. > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/doc/errata/article.pdf I've just subscribed to -stable, so haven't seen all of the previous discussion on the CD-ROM installation problem. However, this procedure for enabling CD-ROM based installation did not work for me. I'm doing a floppy boot install on a 5+ year old Digital P133 machine with SCSI disk drives and a Creative 32x CD-ROM drive. I've never been able to get this setup to work under dma mode (but haven't really tried all that hard). If this current workaround does help a large portion of users out, it would be good to get something on the errata web page. As further understanding of the problem occurs the errata page could be updated. Stuart To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message