Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 03:52:30 +0000 From: Bart Smit <bit@signature.nl> To: bugs@freebsd.org Cc: sos@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IDE CDROM failure report.. [And SPEAK UP NOW, DAMN IT!] Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19961129035230.2df7238c@pollux.or.signature.nl>
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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
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