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Date:      Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:34:49 +0200
From:      Remko Lodder <remko@elvandar.org>
To:        Isaac Grover <isaac.grover@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: "No CD/DVD devices found" after booting from FreeBSD 6.2 CD 1
Message-ID:  <20070411053449.GE92837@elvandar.org>
In-Reply-To: <bf7af5e50704102101pb2f58a9j4daecee25e9b92fb@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <bf7af5e50704102101pb2f58a9j4daecee25e9b92fb@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:01:29PM -0500, Isaac Grover wrote:
> Good evening,
> 
> I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell Dimension
> C521n (no Windows pre-installed) with a Sony model DDU1615S CD/DVD
> drive as the chosen boot media.  Booting from the CD shows that the CD
> drive shows up as cd, and after doing the fdisk/disklabel stuff,
> trying to choose the CD drive as the chosen boot media gives me an
> error window with the message "No CD/DVD devices found".  I would
> include a dmesg output if I knew how to get to it during an install.
> Why can't FreeBSD see the CD drive after sysinstall starts when it can
> clearly see it before sysinstall starts?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -- 

Hello,

Please refer to the questions mailinglist instead first, this might
or might not yet be something that the -bugs team / mailinglist
should handle. You can find the information for the list on
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Goodluck.

-- 
Kind regards,

     Remko Lodder               ** remko@elvandar.org
     FreeBSD                    ** remko@FreeBSD.org

     /* Quis custodiet ipsos custodes */



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