From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 5 5:26:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-12.mail.demon.net (finch-post-12.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC62F158D5; Wed, 5 May 1999 05:26:17 -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-12.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10f0ki-0001v1-0C; Wed, 5 May 1999 12:26:16 +0000 Message-ID: <$66KpLAhiDM3Ewx2@i-zone.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 13:25:05 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: John Subject: Re: weird cdrom problem References: <$d46ADA0g0L3Ew7H@i-zone.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 4.02 U Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This also cc'd to FreeBSD-hardware where it is also relevant In article , Doug White writes >On Tue, 4 May 1999, John wrote: > >> 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. > >Try reversing the devices on the second channel so the CDROM is the slave >device. Hi Doug, thanks for the reply. I'll do this tomorrow morning when I get home from work. meanwhile, I did a bit more research. All these CDs are indicated as being bootable, given that this is also configured bootable in the BIOS: RedHat 5.1 = bootable Redhat 5.2 = bootable SUSE 6.0 (experimental) = bootable - this was dloaded as an ISO image and mastered locally. Caldera Openlinux (latest) = not bootable FreeBSD 2.2.5 - mastered locally = bootable FreeBSD 2.2.6 (official, came with Greg's book) = bootable FreeBSD 3.1 (official, from Walnut Creek) = not bootable. When the cdrom was the only device on 2ndary IDE and was jumpered to channel select, FreeBSD 3.1 wasn't bootable. I hadn't tried the other cds with the machine in this configuration. With linux loaded, all these cds are 100% readable (copied to /dev/hdd6 with no errors) A bit of a puzzler! Any other ideas more than welcome. Regards, -- John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message