From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 13:26:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-10.mail.demon.net (finch-post-10.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED7A914E84 for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 13:26:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-root@i-zone.demon.co.uk) Received: from [158.152.227.78] (helo=i-zone.demon.co.uk) by finch-post-10.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10ellk-00019E-0A for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 May 1999 20:26:20 +0000 Message-ID: <$d46ADA0g0L3Ew7H@i-zone.demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 20:19:16 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: John Subject: weird cdrom problem MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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