Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 18:08:17 -0500 (EST) From: Joseph Cain <cain@geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/1877 Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.92.961027172054.13722B-100000@geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199610271844.TAA27904@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, J Wunsch wrote: > As Joseph Cain wrote: > > > I looked at the SNAP directory > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2-961014-SNAP/ > > and see over 70 files on /bin, and a few on /floppies, is > > it one of the latter you are suggesting I try for a test? > > (boot or boot4?). > > floppies/boot.flp is it. I copied the above to a directory and modified atapiflp.bat to read: @echo off echo Format a single floppy when asked, then exit format. format /u a: echo Now writing the atapi.flp image onto the floppy. Please wait.. echo Please also note that this will only configure your IDE CDROM echo for INSTALLATION purposes. You will still need to configure your echo kernel to use the CDROM (assuming that it works at all) after echo the system is installed. You can use the kernel.ATAPI image on echo the second CD or build your own (see handbook for details on building echo your own kernel). rawrite.exe boot.flp a echo echo Done! When you are ready to install, make sure that the boot floppy echo is in drive A and press the reset button. pause echo on -------------------- I used the rawrite.exe which I found on the cd under tools, since the one on the web page under the 2.1.5 release was dated 1993. I then booted from the floppy this created. It gave me some new options, but I think I did not rebuild the kernal and entered the same install menus as before from the 2.1.0 cdrom. I then got to the media portion and again it could not locate the cd-rom. The menu looked a little different this time, and offered me a couple of options after giving the error message about the cdrom. > > > The support for ATAPI CD-ROMs in FreeBSD 2.1.0 has been fairly > > > `green'. Do you have any chance to try one of the recent boot > > > floppies from a 2.2-SNAP version? (I don't think you will be able to > > > use this floppy to actually install a 2.1 CD-ROM with it, but then you > > > would know for sure whether this is your problem.) > > Please, let us know if this fixed your problem... of course, we cannot > fix bugs in previous releases :), hence i would like to close the PR > then. This does _not_ mean you don't have to expect further help, > only that it's just no longer considered a bug then. > Well, whether you call this a bug or a feature, it keeps me from accessing the Sony 2 speed ide-atapi/250ms/256K device! > Joseph Cain cain@gfdi.fsu.edu, @leyla.gfdi.fsu.edu, @gly.fsu.edu ,or @scri.fsu.edu (904) 644-4014 (office) FAX (904) 644-8972/0098/4214 (904) 385-0227 (residence) http://geomag.gfdi.fsu.edu/~cain
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