Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 11:28:14 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD 1.0 Message-ID: <CAHHBGkp4u%2B2H_biRdFTxYH_YJ_MEzoA%2BM7AhCZrb34dnNTCt8Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAHHBGkrqypNO7LsiwTr9mMZJqESbsEyBOmc%2BiELCUwMp27mYMg@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1306270820200.1930@wonkity.com> <201306271447.r5REks8P020192@fire.js.berklix.net> <CAHHBGkrqypNO7LsiwTr9mMZJqESbsEyBOmc%2BiELCUwMp27mYMg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 27 June 2013 11:11, illoai@gmail.com <illoai@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey <jhs@berklix.com> 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. > Aha, from install.txt: | CD-ROM drives: | Mitsumi CDROM drive with Mitsumi Controller | Most SCSI CD-ROM drives on a supported SCSI controller So I suppose no IDE. -- --
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