Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:53:52 +0200 From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: "Josh Paetzel" <josh@tcbug.org> Cc: freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems Message-ID: <1bd550a00709281553j3e093f7fs27c70987024beffa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070928163956.GF24834@tcbug.org> References: <1bd550a00709280856q42a98284hcf8b5da33098babe@mail.gmail.com> <20070928163956.GF24834@tcbug.org>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 9/28/07, Josh Paetzel <josh@tcbug.org> wrote: > Fernando Apestegua wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > This is my very first post in this list, so I beg for your patience :) > > > > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.1 on an IBM Netfinity 5000. I have the > > two CD's set. > > The machine uses a IDE DVD drive, and 5 SCSI disks. > > > > I boot the machine and the CD starts to boot. I select the FreeBSD > > normal booting. Everything seems to be fine. I can see the messages > > about the detected devices (BIOS CDROM is cd0 and so on...) > > > > I start the installation, The disks are detected, I set up my > > partitions and then I select the CD/DVD media installation... and then > > I get a No CD/DVD drive is present. > > > > The drive is working in terms of hardware (I can run several live CD > > linux distros for example) and then access the CD as usual. How is it > > possible that after booting with FreeBSD the sysinstall (?) program > > doesn't detect the cd? > > > > Thanks in advance > > freebsd-questions@ is a better list for this, but the long and short > of it is the system's BIOS has boot support for the cdrom, but FreeBSD > for whatever reason doesn't have a driver for either the CDROM drive, > or more likely, the IDE controller itself. OK, thanks. I'll post this message there. Cheers > > -- > Thanks, > > Josh Paetzel > >
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?1bd550a00709281553j3e093f7fs27c70987024beffa>