Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:54:34 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Chris Brennan <xaero@xaerolimit.net> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD Message-ID: <4D3DA0BA.6020602@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikK2wj1e_W7HC8jOVBBE=h8R%2B8o7Dn0zShy2Q40@mail.gmail.com> References: <4D3D7D0D.6090700@qeng-ho.org> <AANLkTikK2wj1e_W7HC8jOVBBE=h8R%2B8o7Dn0zShy2Q40@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/24/11 14:19, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Arthur Chance<freebsd@qeng-ho.org> wrote: > >> I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and >> then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall >> reported that it couldn't find a CD drive to install from. Booting another >> VM that already existed showed the same problem - /dev/ad0 exists but >> /dev/acd0 doesn't and there's no sign of it during the device detection part >> of the boot. >> >> Anyone else seeing this problem? >> >> Details: >> >> The host machine is amd64, running 8.1-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC. >> >> The new VM is booting FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso >> >> The old VM is running i386 8.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC, and can't see /dev/acd0 >> regardless of whether or not an ISO is attached to it. >> >> > Did you try editing your VBox config for your VM? Make sure the CD-ROM is > attached to the VM? Well, as I booted from a release CD ISO in order to install FBSD into a new VM, I'm pretty certain it was attached. :-) Much the same happens attempting to boot an Ubuntu ISO - it boots fine but then goes catatonic when I say I want to run it as a live CD. I've been playing about some more using my old installed VM. If under the storage settings I make the CD device the IDE secondary master it doesn't show up. If I make it the primary slave, at boot time immediately after ad0 has been detected I get the following pair of messages ata0: timeout waiting to issue command ata0: error issuing ATA PACKET command repeated 15 times, with acd0: CDROM <VBOX CD-ROM/1.0> at ata0-slave UDMA100 appearing after 5 message pairs. However, if after that I try to access the ISO attached to it, I get 5 pairs of timeout/error messages and an input error.
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