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
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 advancefreebsd-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. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-user-groups/attachments/20070928/4c768145/attachment.pgp
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 > >
"=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?=" 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 advanceWrong list to post to. Suggest you repost to eg questions@freebsd.org> _______________________________________________ > freebsd-user-groups@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-user-groups > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-user-groups-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >-- Julian Stacey. Munich Computer Consultant, BSD Unix C Linux. http://berklix.com Ihr Rauch=mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Dump cigs 4 snuff.