Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:43:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: hardware@FreeBSD.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: K7V, booting from CDROM. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10010161228390.40098-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
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Okay, I have successfully booted from CDROM on this machine. Let me give a quick recap of the hardware, and the necessary steps. HW Overview: Motherboard: Asus K7V Processor: Athlon/850 Memory: 256M PC-133 3.3v unbuffered Floppy: LS-120 UHD floppy on IDE SCSI: Adaptec 2940 UW HDD: IBM 4.3G UW SCSI, Seagate 4.0G U SCSI CDROM: Plextor UltraPlex, UltraPlex 40max, PlexWriter 8/20 Tape: Archive Python DDS2 4mm SCSI The big problem is how Adaptec remaps the CDROM drive over A: in the bios for bootable CDs. What I did was as follows: Set Floppy A in BIOS on motherboard to 1.44MB floppy (was set to none) Set halt on errors to None (was set to all) Set first boot device to Legacy Floppy (was set to LS-120) I turned bootable CDs to enabled on the SCSI controller, and insterted bootable CDROM drive. The machine will now boot from the CDROM. I'm still unsure as to why the FreeBSD boot floppy won't boot from the LS-120 drive. The kernel detected it just fine booting from the CD. The above steps would likely allow me to boot the Windows98 CD that failed in the same manner as the FreeBSD one previously. I'm curious as to why the SCSI controller's mapping of its CDROM drive to A: in the BIOS doesn't work with the LS-120 (since the mobo BIOS assigns it A: prior to the scsi bios being loaded). That is outside of the scope of the FreeBSD project. Thanks to all for the various suggestions. I look forward to seeing just how fast FreeBSD is on this machine. Jamie Bowden -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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