Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 17:26:24 -0400 From: Ben Compton <peabody@naxs.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Install Problems Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980530172624.0093ca60@mail.naxs.com>
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Hello I'm having problems installing FreeBSD 2.2.6 on my Dell computer. It seems that there is some problem accessing my secondary IDE chain. My CD ROM is the master unit on my secondary chain and I cannot get the installer to recongize it. It is an ATAPI IDE CD ROM so I know that is not the proble. What I feel is the problem is that the kernel the install CD uses cannot communicate with my secondary IDE chain. As a matter of fact I have to disable the support for that chain in the customize kernel menu presented on boot-up in order for install to get past the probing devices phase (you know where the blue screen comes up and says "Probing for devices...Please wait") I can boot from my installation CD but if I leave support for the Secondary IDE chain in place the install hangs and if I remove it my CD ROM is no longer accessable. I have checked the IRQ and the hardware address of the Secondary Controller and it matches up with what the generic kernel expects. I've also made sure that there is no resource conflict with the controller. I've tried everything I can think of so I would appreciate any and all help. Here is some info on my computer: Brand: Dell Processor 300MHz Pentium II RAM: 128 MB Hard Drives: Master - Maxtox 8.4G Slave - Western Digital 2.1 G (this is the drive I wish to install FreeBSD on) CD-ROM: Toshiba XM-620B ATAPI I would also like some info about booting FreeBSD from a slave HD with the Windows NT 4.0 OS Loader. I have NT installed on my master HD and I want to put BSD on my slave HD and would like to be able to use both without having to use a boot disk to run BSD. Oh and I would also like to know if anyone has attempted to set up X Windows using a Diamond Fire GL 1000 Pro Video Card with the Permedia II Chipset. I'm really new to the world of UNIX and I need all the help I can get. Thanks in advance for the help. Ben Compton peabody@naxs.com ********************************************************************** "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - Jeremy S. Anderson To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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