Date: Wed, 2 Dec 98 09:23:09 +0100 From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: marko@uk.radan.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ynelson@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Boot from CD Message-ID: <H000057c01a90fe7@MHS> In-Reply-To: <3664F406.7E957281@uk.radan.com>
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Hello, There ARE problems with FreeBSD 2.2.6 and IDE CD-Roms. If you are in this case, you'd better copy the bin and ssys (kernel sources) distributions from the CD to a FAT16 partition, install from DOS and then upgrade the atapi.c and atapi.h files in the kernel sources. Then, you will have access to the CD-Rom from FreeBSD. TfH > Nelson Yu wrote: > > > > I bought the FreeBSD CDs and try to boot it from my CD-Rom directly > > which my PentiumII system supports. I get a read error message. I have > > version 2.2.6. Shouldn't I be able to boot and run from the CD-Rom > > directly? > > > > Yes, you should. This points to a faulty CD (WC should exchange them > if this is the case) or drive (can you read other CD's?). Can you view > the contents of the CD in explorer? (I'm assuming you're running > Windoze), . If you can read the CD in Windoze you could try doing a > DOS boot from the CD, instructions are in one of the TXT files (not > sure which) in the root dir of CD 1. > > > > Nelson <ynelson@yahoo.com> > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Trust the computer industry to shorten Year 2000 to Y2K. It > was this thinking that caused the problem in the first place. > > Mark Ovens, CNC Applications Engineer, Radan Computational Ltd. > Bath, Avon, England. Sheet Metal CAD/CAM Solutions > mailto:marko@uk.radan.com http://www.radan.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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