From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 26 9:31:20 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.95.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B48C337B43E for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from SpencerDavey ([24.12.232.229]) by femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20000926163015.LDEQ4031.femail4.sdc1.sfba.home.com@SpencerDavey> for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:30:15 -0700 Message-ID: <001701c027d6$f9fd8540$e5e80c18@spokn1.wa.home.com> From: "spencer" To: Subject: help with cd-rom boot and install, strange problem Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 09:29:43 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0014_01C0279C.4D64B180" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C0279C.4D64B180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Greetings, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my computer which has a Compaq 2x = dvd drive/20x cdrom. The bios supports booting from the cd-rom, but when it tries to boot from the cd I get this message: "boot from atapi cd-rom -failure" "No /boot/loader" At first I thought FreeBSD just didn't support the drive, but then when = I made the boot floppies, and booted up that way, when it loaded the = kernel, it did detect the drive. But it won't let me install from it. What = gives? Thanks for you help, Spencer ------=_NextPart_000_0014_01C0279C.4D64B180 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Greetings,

I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.0 on my = computer which=20 has a Compaq 2x dvd
drive/20x cdrom.  The bios supports booting = from the=20 cd-rom, but when it
tries to boot from the cd I get this=20 message:

"boot from atapi cd-rom -failure"
"No = /boot/loader"

At=20 first I thought FreeBSD just didn't support the drive, but then when = I
made=20 the boot floppies, and booted up that way, when it loaded the = kernel,
it did=20 detect the drive.  But it won't let me install from it.  What=20 gives?

Thanks for you=20 help,
Spencer
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