Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:38:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Michael A. Endsley" <al7oj@customcpu.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9812181236480.28644-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19981218111138.0082cae0@customcpu.com>
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On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Michael A. Endsley wrote: > I took my new 3.0-R cd down to the computer store and tried different > Cd-Rom drives till I found a brand that would boot FreeBSD from the CD. > Several did and one of them is Mitsumi FX3400S!B. I bought a new one (same > thing), took it home and installed the CD Drive onto my Aptiva E-26. After > running Win95 and testing the new drive, I did a soft reboot with the new > 3.0-R CD in the drive. It didn't boot (kernel not found). The primary determinant of CD bootability is the system BIOS. Not all BIOSen support it. My Toshiba at home with a newer AMIBIOS will do it, and my ASUS/Award BIOS P133 probably would if I had ATAPI CDROMs. :) > I then rebooted into Win95, accessed the CD, and did soft reboot again. > This time, I booted FreeBSD from the HD. Not only did fbsd not find the > CD-Rom, the probe couldn't find anything at the 170 address! > What am I missing? There is a potential bogon in the second IDE controller detection code. Try attaching the CD to your primary CD controller. > I also did a cold reboot, booted from the HD with -c and then quit and let > the probing start. Still nothing. > Any help would be appreciated, ie- I can't really take the Mitsumi back. It's not related to the CD-ROM drive itself. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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