Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:52:24 -0500 From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Tait Larson <tait@wego.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing from cd-rom...it worked under openbsd Message-ID: <01011616522403.00607@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> In-Reply-To: <3A647D04.93AA7887@wego.com> References: <3A647D04.93AA7887@wego.com>
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Well Matsushita Cd drives are supported with the matcd driver which must be built into the kernel to work I believe. But if 581 is the model number then that drive is not supported under the matcd driver. Check the model number info and try man matcd Is the drive SCSI or ATAPI? OpenBSD uses a SCSI emulation layer of a sort to talk to ATAPI CD drives. You may want to look into just getting another ATAPI CD drive as they are pretty cheap. Have you tried a verbose boot to see what it sees for your CD drive? At the boot prompt "press any key to get a prompt, do so and type boot -v to boot verbosely. Use the scroll lock key to stop the dmesg scrolling accross your screen and either write it down or make a fixit floppy and use that when you get to sysinstall. That will get you to a shell prompt and you can access dmesg from there. I do find it strange the fixit floppy doesn't have the more utility, but oh well. It has sed and that can be used the same. dmesg | sed 20q is effective. I don't know how to save the dmesg to another floppy, but at least this way you can see it. Let us know the output of the dmesg after a verbose boot. Maybe that will help. (If you have not already gotten a satisfactory reply) Tim On Tuesday January 16, 2001 11:55, Tait Larson wrote: > I tried to install freebsd from cd-rom and failed b/c the cd-rom was > not recognized. > > Supprisingly, I just got through an openbsd install from cd-rom on > the same machine without any problems. I want to replace openbsd and > try freebsd b/c freebsd seems to have better pppoe support. Anyway, > when I run 'dmesg | grep cd' in openbsd on the machine I get the > following response: > > cd0 at scsibus0 targ0 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-581, 1C06> SCSI0 > 5/cdrom removable > cd0: can use 16-bit, PIO mode 3 > > Does anyone know if this cdrom is supported? If so, what do I need > to do to get it to work? > > Thanks, > > Tait > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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