From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 18: 3:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from watson.ficsgrp.com (watson.ficsgrp.com [194.74.111.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0435E37BBB7 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:03:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from harry.woodward-clarke@s1.com) Received: from mail.au.ficsgrp.com ([194.74.111.35]) by watson.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA7159 for ; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 03:03:37 +0200 Received: from S1.com ([172.16.48.219]) by mail.au.ficsgrp.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id 224; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 11:06:47 +1000 Message-ID: <3957FCF6.DAA9B169@S1.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 01:01:42 +0000 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 can't find CD-ROM References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Adam, > > I recently aquired an older Gateway "2000" pc with a pentium > processor (100 Mhz), a Western digital 730 MB hard disk and > a 2x CD-ROM. Here's the tricky part. > > The CD-ROM is attatched to the motherboard at the "ISA IDE BUS" > which the bios calls the sencondary Hard Disk. This is where the > problem begins... The BIOS is really old and does not see that there is > a CD-ROM on that bus. I have no idea how windowz found the CD-ROM > but I can't get FreeBSD 4.0 to install from this after I boot from > floppies... First thing to chek is that (assuming the CD-ROM is the _only_ device on the 2ndary IDE channel) that it is the PRIMARY device on the 2ndary IDE channel. You will probably need to move a jumper either on the back next to the ide cable, or underneath - both require you to remove the drive (not hard). hth, Haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message