Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 20:19:16 +0100 From: John <freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: weird cdrom problem Message-ID: <$d46ADA0g0L3Ew7H@i-zone.demon.co.uk>
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Hello freebsd-questioners I have a cdrom drive (32x speed) which SuSE Linux 6 detects but FreeBSD 3.1 doesn't. I can boot from the cd if the cd is SuSE but not FreeBSD 3.1 (i.e. it is a relatively new board and the cdrom drive is set bootable). It is jumpered to be secondary master IDE. There are correctly jumpred hard drives on the other three channels. If I install a linux system, and put the FreeBSD cd in after installation, the cd is read perfectly. I still cannot boot to cd if I restart the machine - it gives the error 'boot record not found on device'.. [FreeBSD 3.1] If I make a bootable pair of floppies, and configure the kernel, select cdrom as media, it cannot find the cd still. Linux detects the cd as a CRD-8322B ATAPI CDROM drive. It is about 1 year old. What to do? Why the difference? Regards, -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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