Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 12:51:18 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com Cc: stable@freebsd.org, jkh@freebsd.org Subject: Re: URGENT (?) booting from CD on Atapi Message-ID: <199912172051.MAA01425@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Dec 1999 15:42:27 EST." <199912172042.PAA01558@misha.cisco.com>
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> Hello! > > This may be a bit late :-| > > A machine with SCSI disks and an ATAPI CD-ROM (no IDE disks) would not > boot from 3.3 CD if the SCSI disks are online. It would say: "Read > Error" on the upper left of the screen -- where you'd normally see the > spinning dash. I suspect, this is a loader's bug :(, which may make it > to 3.4 ... This is a bug in your BIOS, or your configuration of your system. The loader is not running at that point; the 'Read Error' message is boot1 trying to load boot2 and failing, typically due to a bad value in %dl passed by the BIOS. > The workaround is to disconnect the SCSI chain at the boot time and > connect it back when the /boot/loader gives the prompt -- the kernel > will find the disks nicely. I assume that the system boots correctly from disk once FreeBSD is installed? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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