Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:51:04 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> Cc: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306271048100.2816@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkp4u%2B2H_biRdFTxYH_YJ_MEzoA%2BM7AhCZrb34dnNTCt8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306270820200.1930@wonkity.com> <201306271447.r5REks8P020192@fire.js.berklix.net> <CAHHBGkrqypNO7LsiwTr9mMZJqESbsEyBOmc%2BiELCUwMp27mYMg@mail.gmail.com> <CAHHBGkp4u%2B2H_biRdFTxYH_YJ_MEzoA%2BM7AhCZrb34dnNTCt8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, illoai@gmail.com wrote: > On 27 June 2013 11:11, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> wrote: >>> >>> Warren Block wrote: >>>> Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here: >>>> http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/ >>>> >>>> emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory, >>>> but reports "no cdrom found". >>>> >>>> I managed to find a Pentium 4 system with a working floppy drive, found >>>> a working disk, made the boot floppy, and then booted it. It boots and >>>> reports the same thing. Putting the CD drive on a separate IDE bus or >>>> as a secondary on the same bus as the hard drive makes no difference. >>>> Chipset too new, maybe. >>>> >>>> Any ideas short of "find an original Pentium system that still works"? >>> >>> I recall FreeBSD CDROM images have had 2 different types of boot >>> sequences, I think it matched evolving generations of BIOS support. >>> The change was some years back. Maybe qemu only supports the newer of the 2 >>> CD boot methods. >>> >> >> Is there perhaps a way to emulate a SCSI CD drive? >> Those tend to work no matter what. >> > > Aha, from install.txt: > > | CD-ROM drives: > | Mitsumi CDROM drive with Mitsumi Controller > | Most SCSI CD-ROM drives on a supported SCSI controller > > So I suppose no IDE. The cdins_ah.flp image says it supports IDE, but I bet you're right, that's only for disks. qemu can emulate a SCSI CD-ROM, I think.
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