Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:00:03 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: ideogon <david@ideogon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: During install: device Probe freezes after detecting Ethernet address Message-ID: <443afuo8v0.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <21335636.post@talk.nabble.com> (ideogon's message of "Wed\, 7 Jan 2009 08\:57\:54 -0800 \(PST\)") References: <21333686.post@talk.nabble.com> <21335636.post@talk.nabble.com>
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ideogon <david@ideogon.com> 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/
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