Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2001 15:16:10 +0200 From: Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de> To: Alexandre =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E9ry=2Fdgt=2Fsct?= <Alexandre.Dery@sct.gouv.qc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Booting the CD-ROM = read error Message-ID: <3B9B6B9A.7020108@i-clue.de> References: <OFA677F4FF.EBFEB57A-ON85256AC0.00757861@sct.gouv.qc.ca>
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Alexandre Déry/dgt/sct wrote: >Hi there ! > >Completely new to FreeBSD, I'm a linux guy (mainly Slackware.... I like the >hard way .. ;) > >I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 from CDROM (burned from ISO). > >The machine is a dual P-233MMX, 384mb ram, 2 scsi disks (with NT4 on first >disk). > >The board is an Intel DK440LX, scsi controler embeded (aic-7895) > >IDE CDROM, Master on 2nd IDE Bus > >Planning to install FreeBSD on 2nd disk (where linux still is...) > >I boot from the cdrom, and the only thing it says is 'Read Error'. Nothing >else. > >I've been able to boot that CD on many other pcs just fine.... and I've >read the cd with NT... works well... so the CDROM itself doesn't seem to be >the problem here... > >Lilo is still installed on mbr... is that a problem ? > Depending on the version you are trying to install and the hardware involved, there may be several problems. - The CD-ROM drive is maybe not fully ATAPI compatible - You got an older FreeBSD CD-ROM, wich seeks only at disk 0 slave for the CD-ROM drive Try to reconnect your CDROM as ata 0 slave. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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