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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 03:52:30 +0000
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From: Bart Smit <bit@signature.nl>
Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report..   [And SPEAK UP NOW, DAMN IT!]
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Hi,

At 12:27 AM 11/28/96 -0800, jkh wrote:
> Please, don't do this!  The time to test out the 2.2-ALPHA boot floppy
> and see if it works with your IDE CDROM is *RIGHT NOW*, not in 6

This really got me off my butt ;)  Installed 2.2-ALPHA using boot.flp (not
boot4) on a crappy Cyrix 486/40 DLC board that always refused (sig 11) to
run previous releases of FreeBSD. Its CDROM also used to go undetected (on
other machines).

First the good news. Further down 3 (tiny) problems that I ran accross.

2.2-ALPHA has been running on this crappy machine without any noticable
problems for half a day now. I don't know why...

My Mitsumi IDE CDROM is properly detected by the 2.2-ALPHA boot.flp kernel
and actually works (while in previous releases I needed to delete a few
lines in the kernel probe code for it to be detected). It's an IBM/Mitsumi
dual speed IDE ATAPI model CRMC FXN01DE (on the label) or FX001/E02 (as
reported by FreeBSD), manufactured april 95. Master on the second IDE
interface (standard cheap ISA multi-io card). No slave present.


Now some small problems:

* I could not find any info on the difference between boot.flp and
boot4.flp. If there are two boot floppies, please make it obvious which one
you should use. I just used boot.flp.

* When booting, I can't type anything at the Boot: prompt. Keyboard dead. I
tried to switch keyboards. Doesn't help. Workaround is to connect the
keyboard AFTER the prompt appears. Yuck. Possibly related to crappy hardware
though.

* In the install program, the text in the menu where you select an FTP site
to install from says that I can specify 'Other' but the option itself is now
called 'URL'.

Bart