From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 17 12:48:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (mass.cdrom.com [204.216.28.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D52314FDD; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:48:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA01425; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:51:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912172051.MAA01425@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT (?) booting from CD on Atapi In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:42:27 EST." <199912172042.PAA01558@misha.cisco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:51:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello! > > This may be a bit late :-| > > A machine with SCSI disks and an ATAPI CD-ROM (no IDE disks) would not > boot from 3.3 CD if the SCSI disks are online. It would say: "Read > Error" on the upper left of the screen -- where you'd normally see the > spinning dash. I suspect, this is a loader's bug :(, which may make it > to 3.4 ... This is a bug in your BIOS, or your configuration of your system. The loader is not running at that point; the 'Read Error' message is boot1 trying to load boot2 and failing, typically due to a bad value in %dl passed by the BIOS. > The workaround is to disconnect the SCSI chain at the boot time and > connect it back when the /boot/loader gives the prompt -- the kernel > will find the disks nicely. I assume that the system boots correctly from disk once FreeBSD is installed? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message