From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 25 18:15:48 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA29930 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:15:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from io.uwinnipeg.ca (io.uwinnipeg.ca [142.132.1.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA29917 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ppawlacz@UWinnipeg.ca) Received: from localhost (ppawlacz@localhost) by io.uwinnipeg.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA21769 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:15:36 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 20:15:36 -0600 (CST) From: "Peter P." To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: CDROM Installation Problem In-Reply-To: <011c01be4894$df4ba970$1101a8c0@printserver.on-net.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Jerry Sloan wrote: > During bootup do you see it hit the cd drive? It maybe impossible for you to > do this. Why don't you just make a boot floppy. There are directions in a > readme on the cdrom > > Jerry The bootup does hit the drive, the light goes on, but it treats it like there was nothing in there. it continues on to boot the installed OS (Red Hat 5.1) The motherboard does not find the floppy, if it does it doesn't read from it. i know that the drive is working fine if i can mount/umount it in red hat. I did put CROM 1st to be read in bios when booting. and i did try it with the floppy to be read first. same result. I think if linux can be booted with cdrom, why not fbsd? thank you, Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message