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From: Thomas Graichen <graichen@omega.physik.fu-berlin.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.1 install problem (failed to load ROOT distribution)
To: tkelley@cy.com (Tim M. Kelley)
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 18:24:59 +0100 (MET)
Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199601122141.QAA12268@cy.com> from "Tim M. Kelley" at Jan 12, 96 03:41:10 pm
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hasn't Tim M. Kelley said ? ...
> 
> At 09:17 AM 1/12/96 -0800, you wrote:
> >> 
> >> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.1 (on CD from Walnut Creek). Unfortunately,
> >> I have an IDE CDROM drive, and the installation software isn't recognizing
> >> my CD. (I've got 2 IDE drives, one IDE CD configured as master on secondary
> >> IDE ribbon).
> >
> >does the kernel on the ATAPI floppy also not recognise your drive?
> >
> >
> 
> No the ATAPI floppy does not recognise the drive. I should say here,
> however, that in the boot sequence after the two lines for wd0 and two lines
> for wd1, there is a line for wc1, but the second line for wc1 doesn't
> appear. For wd0 and wd1, that second line shows the drive type and
> configuration.
> 
> I didn't mention it in my last post, but the PC has a PCI bus, if that makes
> any difference.
> 
try the cdrom as slave on the first controller and the second disk as
master on the second - this way the atapi.flp should work

t
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