Re: booting from cd-rom

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:15:31 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote
> > From: "Alex Hollerith" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 22:51:04 +0200
> > Sender: [email protected]
> > 
> > hi,
> > 
> > i'm trying to boot and install freebsd 4.7 from cd-rom on my laptop.
> > the loader stops with "can't work out...".
> > 
> > is there a way (e.g. by setting loader parameters) to get things
> > going or should i just give up?
> 
> You did not give us much to go on. Model of laptop and details on the
> full message would help a bit.
> 
> If the laptop has a floppy, you might want to try booting that way 
> and seeing if the kernel on the floppy can talk to the CD. If so,
>  you can just tell it to install from the CD.

Thanks for your mail.

It is a no-name Laptop. Some Details:
CD-ROM: QSI DVD-ROM SDR-081
HardDisk: FUJITSU MHR2020AT
IEEE-1394 Host-Controller: NEC OHCI compliant
NIC: SiS 900 based PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter
It has no Floppy... and Windows XP is installed


The Loader Stops with:
 Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
 Guessed BIOS device 0x0 not found by probes, defautling to disk0:
[...]
  can't load 'kernel'
  can't load 'kernel.old'

lsdev and show output:

ok lsdev
cd @ 0xff2c
disk @ 0xef38
    disk0:  BIOS drive C:
       disk0s1: Unknown fs: 0x7
pxe @ 0xd6b0
ok show
LINES=24
console=vidconsole
currdev=disk0s4a
interpret=ok
loaddev=disk0s4a
promt=${interpret}
ok

alex


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