From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 24 15:54:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9422C1065696 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:54:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F2AC8FC17 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:54:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p0OFsYhZ001996; Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:54:35 GMT (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <4D3DA0BA.6020602@qeng-ho.org> Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:54:34 +0000 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101218 Thunderbird/3.0.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Brennan References: <4D3D7D0D.6090700@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Virtualbox - no /dev/acd0 in VM even if it's booting from CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:54:37 -0000 On 01/24/11 14:19, Chris Brennan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Arthur Chance wrote: > >> I just upgraded to virtualbox-ose-3.2.12 (ditto the vbox kmod port), and >> then tried to install a new VM. It booted from the CD fine but sysinstall >> reported that it couldn't find a CD drive to install from. Booting another >> VM that already existed showed the same problem - /dev/ad0 exists but >> /dev/acd0 doesn't and there's no sign of it during the device detection part >> of the boot. >> >> Anyone else seeing this problem? >> >> Details: >> >> The host machine is amd64, running 8.1-RELEASE-p2 GENERIC. >> >> The new VM is booting FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso >> >> The old VM is running i386 8.1-RELEASE-p1 GENERIC, and can't see /dev/acd0 >> regardless of whether or not an ISO is attached to it. >> >> > Did you try editing your VBox config for your VM? Make sure the CD-ROM is > attached to the VM? Well, as I booted from a release CD ISO in order to install FBSD into a new VM, I'm pretty certain it was attached. :-) Much the same happens attempting to boot an Ubuntu ISO - it boots fine but then goes catatonic when I say I want to run it as a live CD. I've been playing about some more using my old installed VM. If under the storage settings I make the CD device the IDE secondary master it doesn't show up. If I make it the primary slave, at boot time immediately after ad0 has been detected I get the following pair of messages ata0: timeout waiting to issue command ata0: error issuing ATA PACKET command repeated 15 times, with acd0: CDROM at ata0-slave UDMA100 appearing after 5 message pairs. However, if after that I try to access the ISO attached to it, I get 5 pairs of timeout/error messages and an input error.