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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!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!EU.net!sun4nl!cwi.nl!news.cwi.nl!avg From: avg@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink) Subject: Re: HELP! IDE CD-ROM not recognized! Message-ID: <avg.835263620@news.cwi.nl> Sender: news@cwi.nl (The Daily Dross) Nntp-Posting-Host: mijt.cwi.nl Organization: CWI, Amsterdam References: <4pv7nq$14c_004@mypc.neosoft.com> <4q2o29$nlj@news1.halcyon.com> <4q2qag$18k_006@mypc.neosoft.com> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:40:20 GMT Lines: 32 conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes: >>>PCI EIDE interface (2 ports). The CD is configured as a master on the 2nd >>>IDE interface. I have no docs on how to change it to slave, so that FreeBSD >>>will recognize it. Sounds exactly like my configuration---and I have the same problems. >>If you can get a minimal system installed, perhaps via a DOS partition, >>it's only a one line change, if I recall correctly, to configure a kernel >>to support your configuration. >Yep, that's exactly what I did. Copied a minimal install set (including >src, of course) to my DOS partition, installed from there, rebuilt the >kernel (luckily, I have a 166 MHz machine; didn't take long at all) and >voila! Finally! When I saw my CD show up in the boot scan I wanted to >break out the champagne, let me tell ya! :-) Hm. And I thought Linux was a pain to install. Is there really no way to do this without compiling a complete new kernel first? Why is there no standard boot disk image for such a typical setup? The majority of IDE CDROM users will, I think, have a HD and CDROM on two different ports, both master. -- Annius V. Groenink .......................................... avg@cwi.nl Room M233, CWI, Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam phone +31 20 592 40 77 .. and ZFC/home P.O.Box 15813, 1001 NH Amsterdam phone +31 20 4 208 248 .. zfc@zfc.nl .........................................................