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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!uwm.edu!uwvax!frodo.ssec.wisc.edu!bt From: bt@frodo.ssec.wisc.edu () Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: wc 2.1 install IDE CDROM install problems Date: 28 Dec 1995 22:38:28 GMT Organization: University of WI, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept. Lines: 60 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4bv694$mlj@spool.cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: frodo.ssec.wisc.edu Alas having read : >>molson@milwaukee.rbvdnr.com (Matto) wrote: >>>I am attempting to install 2.1 off from a matsushita IDE cdrom. >>>(One of the "supported" ones). When I use the install_ide.bat >>>out of the view utility it begins the installaiton boot and then >>>restarts my machine. When I then choose the adapi installation >>>(which it says to do if the first doesn't work), it gets me to the >>>installation menus but says I have no cdrom when I choose it as >>>my installation medium. I can always copy everything to my DOS>my installation medium. I can always copy everything to my DOS >>>partition but I would really like to get this to work. >>> >>> >>>Matto >> >>We just performed an IDE CD-ROM installation and had similar problems to >>start with. You should check to see what the IDE Master/Slave jumper is >>set at. Our didn't work with the CD-ROM set at Master, instead it had a >>jumper called "cable select" which we used. After that was set properly >>it worked like a charm. >> >>One problem though, even when I used the ATAPI.FLP image to boot from >>(which DID recognize the CD-ROM drive) after the install the system would >>not recognize the CD-ROM drive. Apparently you have to re-compile the >>kernel for your system with the support for it. Oh well, at least I >>could use it for the install. :-) >> >>-- >>Timothy Loveridge loverll. :-) Nothing seems to fit yesterday's pain. I have excitedly waited the cdrom support so I could install 2.1 and X and PPP to the University from my PC and return a BSD/IBM RT to the university(my old slip connection). I have a packard bell 133 with with dual ide controllers. I have a 1200 meg win95/winNT partition, followed by 800 megs of freeBSD/ or DOS. This 2 gig is managed via two drives somehow looking like 1. On the second controller is Mashushita CDrom drive and an 850 meg seagate(slave). This is an atapi controller. Both DOS/fdisk and the boot/rebuild code see both drives just fine. I have the most success with placing all 850 meg of the last ide drive as the freeBSD partitions and the entire build proceeds to completion. The osbsbeta booter let me point to that drive and partion just fine also. BUT when is tries to run, the kernel loaded from that partition by the booter fails to find wdc1 at 0x170 and the world ends. When I went the safe route and try to build the entire freeBSD install into that 800 meg on the back end of my "first drive", the system locks up as it starto load up the file systems from the cdrom. Going from wdc1 cdrom to wdc0 w0. ???????? Any help would be nice. Not a unix novice here. Used to do kernel code and scsi drivers and now do more networking....... Unix jobs since 81. I like what I see. The 850 segate had 2.05 from WC that I loaded from floppies and DOS. It was fine. Now I have 1024x764 pixels and the X will be reasonable plus of course the CDROM..... and more speed.... :-) Bill Taylor, Experts On Demand, eod@waun.tdsnet.com