From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 8 02:00:07 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D34CA1065672 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:00:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A90E08FC16 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 02:00:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 656 invoked from network); 8 Jan 2009 02:00:06 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 8 Jan 2009 02:00:06 -0000 Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.6]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C31655081F; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:00:03 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 5AFB61CDB6; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 21:00:03 -0500 (EST) To: ideogon References: <21333686.post@talk.nabble.com> <21335636.post@talk.nabble.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:03 -0500 In-Reply-To: <21335636.post@talk.nabble.com> (ideogon's message of "Wed\, 7 Jan 2009 08\:57\:54 -0800 \(PST\)") Message-ID: <443afuo8v0.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: During install: device Probe freezes after detecting Ethernet address X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:00:08 -0000 ideogon writes: > I've actually been able to get past this part once. It continued into the > installation menu. I was able to configure the system and then when I set > it to boot from the CD/DVD, it said that the CD/DVD drive isn't supported. > > Did some Googling and apparently that even though the BIOS recognizes my DVD > (and thus loaded the installation menu from it) doesn't mean that the > FreeBSD installation recognizes my DVD drive. According to FreeBSD's site, > it should recognize any ATAPI CD/DVD drive, which it is according to the > BIOS. I went back into the BIOS and realized that the drive was being > recognized, however, as slave and not master, so I reconnected it as slave > (confirmed this in the BIOS) and rebooted, speculating that this is the > underlying issue of FreeBSD not supporting my CD/DVD drive. You can't have an ATA bus with a slave and not a master. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/