Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 12:45:55 -0400 From: William Bulley <web@merit.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 4.2 oddness on NLX w/ slim CD-ROM drive Message-ID: <20010521124554.M2679@web1.merit.edu>
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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
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