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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!news.dfn.de!news.dkrz.de!news.rrz.uni-hamburg.de!rzdspc5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de!2schaefe From: 2schaefe@rzdspc5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Leslie Schaefer) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: FreeBSD 2.0 + Mitsumi CDROM problems Date: 24 May 1995 21:02:04 GMT Organization: University of Hamburg -- Germany Lines: 29 Message-ID: <3q06sc$j0c@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: rzdspc5.informatik.uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi guys, I've just received a Walnut Creek FreeBSD CD to install on someone elses system and have run into problems - could someone please help? The system is as follows: NE2000 network card configured to I/O x300 IRQ 5 HD 408 MB, 899 cylinders, 15 heads, 62 sectors, I/O x1f0, IRQ 14 (IDE) FD I/O x3f0, IRQ 6 Seriell I/O x3f8+x2f8, IRQ 4+3 Mitsumi CDROM I/O x340, IRQ 11, DMA 5 no paralell... During initial boot the net card and the cd are correctly recognised, as is everything else, the install programm only makes special files in /dev for the cdrom at x300 (/dev/cd0a, /dev/cd0c and /dev/cd0d) and not for the cd at x340 (being /dev/cd1a etc..) When the install prog then wants to mount the cd it does a mount with the device /dev/cd0a and not the (non existent) /dev/cd1a. I've tried putting the net card on x280 but get problems with booting (wonky main board I presume). My only chance is to be able to 'mknod' the missing specials and mount the CD per hand - the only problem being that I do not have the major and minor device numbers for the CD at x340. Could someone help? nother possibility is that I may be able to give some boot arguments to the system at startup (I assume the kernel has some reason for stopping for a while with a "Boot:" prompt! Any ideas? Many thanks in advance if anyone has any ideas Les