From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 18 12:16:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles522.castles.com [208.214.165.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1358614EB4 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:16:15 -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 MAA00644; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:19:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912182019.MAA00644@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Mikhail Teterin Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT (?) booting from CD on Atapi In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 00:21:23 EST." <199912180521.AAA01029@rtfm.newton> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 12:19:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Mike Smith once stated: > > => Ok... So this is a different one, then... What information do I need > => to provide for someone to be able to make a "work around" for _it_? > = > =It's not clear that you can; it's possible that your setup is just "too > =broken" for us. > = > =A good start would be to test some other supposedly bootable CDROMs > =(W96, NT4.0, RedHat 6.1) and see if they work. > > No, I can not afford rebooting this box :( It is a "production" machine. > Only what I can get during run-time. But it can boot from the CDROM if > there are no disks attached. Well, without this extra information, it's not possible to diagnose your problem let alone work around it. I'm afraid I just have to pronounce it "misconfigured or Truly Broken" (deem wand-waving motion included). -- \\ 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