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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.mid.net!sbctri.tri.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!chi-news.cic.net!uwm.edu!homer.alpha.net!usenet From: molson@milwaukee.rbvdnr.com (Matto) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: wc 2.1 install IDE CDROM install problems Date: 29 Dec 1995 14:39:38 GMT Organization: Your Organization Lines: 45 Message-ID: <4c0uja$3hj@homer.alpha.net> References: <4bv694$mlj@spool.cs.wisc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.46.64.73 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6+ >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 I finally got mine to work last night! The problem I was having was that the boot floppy(and the generic kernel) set the I/O address for the IDE CDROM to something like 0x330. Thanks to Windows 95(the only thing about it I've been thankful for), I could print out my entire hardware configuration and found that my CDROM was at I/O 0x630. I changed this using config on booting the ATAPI floppy and the install went great. Then I used config on the generic kernel and it found it just the same. The only thing left to do was mount it. In CONFIG(to set address): config>port matcdc0 0x630 //or whatever your I/O address for IDE CDROM config>quit In FreeBSD(to mount it): #/sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/matcd0a /cdrom You'll have to do this mount manually every time you boot unless you remove the "noauto" part of the /cdrom line in /etc/fstab. If you do, make sure there is a disk in the drive every time you boot. Good Luck, Matto