From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 27 15:11:23 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F193BE3 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:11:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from illoai@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pb0-x22b.google.com (mail-pb0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c01::22b]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E5521C99 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:11:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pb0-f43.google.com with SMTP id md12so1043513pbc.16 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:11:23 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=11NkqMsiOga0p3ELdY7XGuv2o22WMgNc90euxZGYe1I=; b=OGXZGjg+O77b0SseHYyr0vi5DUwadthjADaqhfnk4gt20hjzhF8DXoiBLy99oQsuki lO4qutAtvFHGypR/FZ47tDQiSik71fozMEi5QH+BnlNTg6Qu0Xt59jANFOsrHYt41i67 7aF9bjCmm4nIiC+puUHuf16VWBjx/NPKg3wx0hJDv4jx5CFaZNbzLymCg3nVPLvjbO/U 5htD6mwC6EaImJSQZuVHCBOXWhVzbvu4Gxbf/WprX9qcOvT18nuPTI+jinunI8aB/BKl G8NhbNJvA0PUOaTEZayFVP3K8ybrUm6q85m4obbg+Ohvp2fOB3HSgAfZ+KeHkkT2aBD5 2JRQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.66.226.111 with SMTP id rr15mr6606734pac.122.1372345883278; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:11:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.129.99 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:11:23 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201306271447.r5REks8P020192@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201306271447.r5REks8P020192@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:11:23 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0 From: "illoai@gmail.com" To: "Julian H. Stacey" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:11:23 -0000 On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > 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. > > Is there perhaps a way to emulate a SCSI CD drive? Those tend to work no matter what. -- --