From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 21:24:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33E1816A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:24:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from hotmail.com (sea1-dav43.sea1.hotmail.com [207.68.162.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27BA343D3F for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:24:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from c0d3h4x0r@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:24:33 -0800 Received: from 24.16.134.90 by sea1-dav43.sea1.hotmail.com with DAV; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:24:33 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [24.16.134.90] X-Originating-Email: [c0d3h4x0r@hotmail.com] X-Sender: c0d3h4x0r@hotmail.com From: "Keith Kelly" To: Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:24:43 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: MSN 9 Seal-Send-Time: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 21:24:43 -0800 X-MimeOLE: Produced By MSN MimeOLE V9.00.0011.1200 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Jan 2004 05:24:33.0840 (UTC) FILETIME=[B01B6B00:01C3DF15] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: FreeBSD 4.9: Installation: CD-ROM problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 05:24:36 -0000 >From the FreeBSD FAQ = (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#NO-INS= TALL-CDROM): ------------------ 3.16. I booted from my ATAPI CDROM, but the install program says no = CDROM is found. Where did it go? The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured CDROM drive. Many = PCs now ship with the CDROM as the slave device on the secondary IDE = controller, with no master device on that controller. This is illegal = according to the ATAPI specification, but Windows plays fast and loose = with the specification, and the BIOS ignores it when booting. This is = why the BIOS was able to see the CDROM to boot from it, but why FreeBSD = cannot see it to complete the install. Reconfigure your system so that the CDROM is either the master device on = the IDE controller it is attached to, or make sure that it is the slave = on an IDE controller that also has a master device. ------------------- Well, I'm hitting exactly this problem with the install program after = booting off the CD, but in my case the CDROM *is* the slave device on an = IDE controller that also has a master device! My configuration is as = follows: - IDE1 master: hard drive - IDE1 slave: hard drive - IDE2 master: hard drive - IDE2 slave: CD-ROM drive I'm a long-time Windows user who has dabbled in Linux and hated a lot = about it. After reading about FreeBSD, I'm really excited to install it = and try it out. But I can't even get into the installation process = because of this issue. Can anyone help? I've searched newsgroup and e-mail list archives and = have found nothing relevant. - Keith