Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:39:22 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: igorr@speechpro.com Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-ROM troubles on i815EP based MB Message-ID: <3DAD17AA.9A996B22@mindspring.com> References: <20021016055517.GA462@sysadm.stc> <3DAD0D3A.A97D19EB@mindspring.com> <20021016071037.GA442@sysadm.stc>
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Igor Roboul wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:50PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > unrelated to whether or not the hardware is supported or not by > > FreeBSD. > FreeBSD boots from CD, but could not mount / from it :-( Are we talking about the VIA chipset board that won't run after 4.5-RELEASE, or are we talking about the i815EP chipset board? The problem is that you have asked two questions here. > Also in 4.6 case, this was system upgraded from sources. But same > problem when booting from intall CD. This is irrelevent to the upgrade procedure I outlined; the upgade procedure I gave you will work to upgrade a system from a version that can find the CDROM to any later version which can't. This is why I gave you that specific procedure: the upgrade is run on the old kernel that can find the CDROM drive. ONE of the MANY reasons I gave you the procedure I did was that it is possible that the driver needed for your CDROM drive and/or its controller was omitted from the pseudo-floppy boot image. > Yet again: system boots, sysinstall starts (in -CURRENT case), but it > could not find CD :-(. > With 4.6 system boots but without CD, both source upgraded and from > installation CD. > > PS. > I'm tracking -CURRENT on various machines from March, 2000. So, I know > how system boots from CD. FWIW, you still haven't identified the controller or the CDROM drive or the probe messages from the 4.5-RELEASE that is able to boot on the hardware, for either machine. The chipset the machines are using is not germane to this discussion: it's most likely just useless information that has nothing to do with the problem. If you are insisting that this is a driver problem, it would be helpful to know: 1) The last driver version that worked 2) The driver version that didn't work PS: Have you tried telling it not to load ACPI? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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