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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver2.jvnc.net!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news From: 900RR (900RR) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Free BSD and Panasonic CD-ROM drive Date: Tue, 12 Dec 1995 05:36:47 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Lines: 50 Message-ID: <4aj4no$get@news.voicenet.com> References: <info-1112951623160001@ldn99-14.leiden.nl.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: philly42.voicenet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 I notice a potential problem with CDROMs in general. Basically, the bootup process aborts if there is no CDROM disc in the drive when you boot! Worse, the /etc/fstab file is processed before the network interfaces are configured, so a remote machine is unusable when booted without a CDROM disc. no telnet, ping, or ftp. :( It's as good as dead. The solution is NOT to put /dev/matcd0 (or any cdrom drive) in the /etc/fstab file unless you're DARN sure there will be a disc in there. Should failed file system mounts actually abort the boot process? What's the solution to this kind of problem. Solaris has a volcheck daemon, that probes the floppy and cdrom drive for changed volumes, and re-mounts them accordingly. This fits more into what people actually do with PC-class machines, and is much easier than executing the appropriate mount/umount commands by hand, IMO. info@arsmedia.nl (Ars Media) wrote: >Hi there, >I'm currently installing FreeBSD on a Pentium 100 with a panasonic CD-ROM drive. >when running fbsdboot -D kernel the CD-ROM drive is not recognized, but it >is recognized when I run fbsdboot -c -D kernel and change the adress to >0x300. >But when I commit the installation, I get an error: >Error mounting matcd0a on /cdrom: Invalid argument (22) >and after that >Failed to load the root distribution. Please correct this problem and try >again. >Does anyone know how to solve this problem?? >Thanx >Casper >P.S I'm trying to install freeBSD on a machine which has WIN95 on an other >partition.