Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:23:02 -0300 (ART) From: Jose Albores <jote@bigfoot.com> To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD-ROM not found during install. Message-ID: <XFMail.990706222302.jote@bigfoot.com>
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I am trying to install the 4 CDs Walnut Creek FreeBSD 3.0 from a "more" than
very generic CD-ROM as secondary slave, but I found two surprising news:
I can NOT boot directly from CD, even my BIOS supports this feature! (?) And...
of course I can boot from CD with other bootable cd's without problem.
The second is that after making a bootable disk with the boot.flp image using
"dd" one of the first installation steps tells me that No CD-ROM has been
mounted. As I guess it's an IDE device, I thought it should be supported.
Looking more inside, I see what I think means that FreeBSD allocates IRQ 15 to
my secondary slave device. I guess it's correct, but still cannot read CD-ROM.
As I know nothing about IRQs, I/O and 0x117 stuff, I need a lot of help if I
have to setup this. But -say again- it's surprising it's not auto-detected!!!
BTW: I don't understand the options at boot like:
boot: 1:fd0a1:wda2
and could not find yet explanation after cat"ing" doc/doc.a* and untarring, and
later reading install.htm .
TIA.
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Jose Albores <jote@bigfoot.com>
Actually, what I'd like is a little toy spaceship!!
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