From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 18:27:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail-srv.MR.COM.AR (mail-srv.mr.com.ar [200.41.14.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87A76150EB for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 18:27:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jote@bigfoot.com) Received: from dr.defense.edu ([209.13.62.131]) by mail-srv.MR.COM.AR (Post.Office MTA v3.5.2 release 221 ID# 0-59784U17500L14800S0V35) with ESMTP id AR for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:27:10 -0300 Content-Length: 1127 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 06 Jul 1999 22:23:02 -0300 (ART) From: Jose Albores To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Subject: CD-ROM not found during install. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. --- Jose Albores Actually, what I'd like is a little toy spaceship!! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message