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To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0 
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
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Warren Block wrote:
> Yes, 1.0, from November 1993.  The install CD is here:
> http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/
> 
> emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory, 
> but reports "no cdrom found".
> 
> I managed to find a Pentium 4 system with a working floppy drive, found 
> a working disk, made the boot floppy, and then booted it.  It boots and 
> reports the same thing.  Putting the CD drive on a separate IDE bus or 
> as a secondary on the same bus as the hard drive makes no difference. 
> Chipset too new, maybe.
> 
> Any ideas short of "find an original Pentium system that still works"?

I recall FreeBSD CDROM images have had 2 different types of boot
sequences, I think it matched evolving generations of BIOS support.
The change was some years back.  Maybe qemu only supports the newer of the 2
CD boot methods.

Cheers,
Julian
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