From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 26 20:44:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.hutchtel.net (ns1.hutchtel.net [206.9.112.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B003937B674 for ; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:44:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jpaetzel@hutchtel.net) Received: from joshpaet (hutch-732.hutchtel.net [206.10.71.32]) by ns1.hutchtel.net (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id WAA23007; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:44:27 -0500 (CDT) From: "Josh Paetzel" To: "Damon Hammis" , "Adam Blake" , Subject: RE: FreeBSD 4.0 can't find CD-ROM Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 22:36:51 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.0.20000626232730.00b04900@hammis.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Damon Hammis > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 10:31 PM > To: Adam Blake; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.0 can't find CD-ROM > > > I recently had a similar situation with a Gateway PC. I wound up > installing an ftp server on my windows box and making the cdrom drive the > directory that freebsd looks for when doing an ftp install. > > Best advice is to get a new motherboard and processor. Makes > life much easier. > > --Damon > Before you do that, check to see if you can flash the BIOS. That would probably take care of the problem. Another thing that I find kind of interesting, I didn't know they made an IDE 2x cdrom. I thought the 2x'ers were either SCSI or those proprietary jobs. > At 08:49 PM 6/26/00 -0400, Adam Blake wrote: > >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... > > > >Any suggestions? Do I need to provied more info? > > > >Any input appreciated. > > > >Adam Michalak > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message