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From: Gert van der Plas <gert@inferno.phys.tue.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Can't load BSD on 486 with IDE cdrom -
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 16:10:25 +0200
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology
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Ralf Wenk wrote:
> : 'drive D:'. but to no avail. Downloaded some bsdi update files to create a new
> : boot disk that is supposed to recognise an IDE cdrom, though it seems to only
> : mention mitsumi drives, and mine is a Hitachi if that makes any difference.
>
> : Boot disk 2 tries to mount mcd0, but can't find it at all. Any clues anyone?
>
> BSD/OS Versions lower 2.1 do not support ATAPI (IDE) cdroms. You'll have
> to upgrade.
Further more you need to have your ATAPI CDROM plugged in as master. If you have a
secondary IDE controller this is easy. In the other case. Put your IDE-HD as slave.
You can't boot from it, but you can boot from your FBSD installfloppy. Once you have
finnished installing FBSD2.1 you have to reconfigure the kernelconfig source and
recompile the kernel to include the support for the atapi CDROM. You can only expect
a message when booting that the kernel does not reconize the atapi state of the cdrom
drive. Everthing else works flawlessly. Well... I can't change CD's when booted. But
I can live with that.
O' yeah. There's a special bootflop image for atapi-support you should use for the installdisk...
Wishes,
Gert
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