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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!caen!hookup!news.mathworks.com!uhog.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!ping.de!robkaos!robsch From: robsch@robkaos.ping.de (Robert Schien) Subject: FreeBSD-2.0-ALPHA: problems Message-ID: <1994Nov14.220849.425@robkaos.ping.de> Organization: Private Site, Essen, Germany X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Date: Mon, 14 Nov 1994 22:08:49 GMT Lines: 30 My system has the following configuration: VLB-486DX50, 20 MB RAM, S3 graphics card (VLB) AHA 1542C Tape drive Archive Viper 2525 NEC 84-1 CD-ROM SyQuest 270 (SCSI) Conner CP3544 (IDE) Normally, I'm running ESIX 4.0.4.1 on the Conner. For test purposes I disable the Conner in the PC BIOS (Award), so that I can boot from the SyQuest. After booting the boot floppy of FreeBSD-2.0-ALPHA, installation was no problem, but as I tried to boot from the SyQuest, I got endless reboots. I was able to boot, when the boot diskette is inserted and I entered 'hd(1,a)/kernel' at the boot prompt. Next problem concerns the CD-ROM: Entering mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0d /cdrom causes the message 'Device not configured', although the CD-drive is accessed (I hear and see it:-)) and I'm pretty sure that SCSI-CDROM support is in the GENERIC kernel (at least the CDROM shows up during bus probing; an inserted CD is correctly recognized). Someone else having these problems? Note that I have 20 MB RAM, which is more than the "ISA limit" 16 MB. Regards...Robert