From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 9:46:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from segue.merit.edu (segue.merit.edu [198.108.1.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD6637B424 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 09:46:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from web@merit.edu) Received: from web1.merit.edu (web1.merit.edu [198.108.62.192]) by segue.merit.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530415DD9D for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 12:45:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from web@localhost) by web1.merit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA03476 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 May 2001 12:45:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:45:55 -0400 From: William Bulley To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.2 oddness on NLX w/ slim CD-ROM drive Message-ID: <20010521124554.M2679@web1.merit.edu> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1us Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am dealing with an ASUS NLX (Pentium III) motherboard in an NLX case that houses a "slim CD-ROM" (which looks like a laptop-based CD-ROM drive). Disk one from the 4.2 distribution loads just fine and I complete all the steps in sysinstall up to the "Media" selection screen. When I select "CD-ROM", it reverts back to the previous menu. In fact, hitting the space bar will bounce back and forth from the "Media" selection (on the installation menu) to the "CD-ROM" selection (on the media menu), sigh... What confuses me is that the CD-ROM loads just fine, in that the generic kernel boots up and even states "ATAPI CD-ROM loading..." or something like that (from memory) prior to device discovery. If the BIOS can load the mini/generic kernel and later hand off to sysinstall, then why doesn't the process continue (and read all my 4.2 install choices from the same CD-ROM)? What am I missing here? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: web@merit.edu Merit Network Inc. Ann Arbor, Michigan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message