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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc 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!lazrus.cca.rockwell.com!cacd.rockwell.com!newsrelay.iastate.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!dfw.nkn.net!rowdy.lonestar.org!nemesis!uhclem From: uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org (Frank Durda IV) Subject: Re: Help! FreeBSD not C'ing my CDrom X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5 Organization: The Big Blue Box Message-ID: <DLM3n4.9Gy@nemesis.lonestar.org> References: <4ds3ch$m2k@mercury.IntNet.net> Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 02:16:16 GMT Lines: 37 Jeff Tomich (jtomich@IntNet.net) wrote: [0]Trying to install FreeBSD 2.1.0 from Walnut Creek CDrom. Tried both boot [0]and atapi floppies for boot up. Neither C's my CDrom. [0] [0]I'm runng Packard Bell Pentium 75, 12M Ram, 850 IDE HD, Panasonic CDrom. Find out what model of CD-ROM drive that is or where it connects inside your computer. You might also be able to tell from the messages MS-DOS displays when it boots. If you have a CR-562 or CR-563, you have a proprietary Matsushita/Creative interface drive and the driver for that is "matcd". (Packard Bell seems to use a lot of these drives.) If this is the drive type you have, the I/O port probably isn't the default one used in 2.1.0. Try booting with the "-c" option, then type "port matcdc -1[ENTER]", then "q[ENTER]", and see if it can find it then. The -1 tells the driver to look for the host interface in a lot more possible locations. Look for the "matcd" and "matcdc" messages when the system is booting to see if this helped. If you have a different model drive or you can see that the drive data cable connects to the main logic board (and possibly to the hard disk too), then you probably have an IDE drive and you need to check the settings on the wdc driver. If this is the type of drive you have, you need to boot the ATAPI boot instead of the standard boot.flp file. If all that doesn't work, send the model number of the drive (take the cover off the computer and look), and if the drive is connected to a sound card or some other sort of card, send the model number or any other information you can find on that card too. Frank Durda IV <uhclem@nemesis.lonestar.org>|"The Knights who say "LETNi" or uhclem%nemesis@rwsystr.nkn.net | demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" ^------(this is the fastest route)|"A what?" or ...letni!rwsys!nemesis!uhclem |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983