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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: HELP!  IDE CD-ROM not recognized!
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 96 05:26:40 GMT
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In article <4q2o29$nlj@news1.halcyon.com>, tzs@coho.halcyon.com (Tim Smith) wrote:
>Conrad Sabatier <conrads@neosoft.com> wrote:
>>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.
>
>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!  :-)

As it turned out, despite what the docs said, it wasn't even necessary to 
slave the drive.

I'm wondering now if a simple MAKEDEV wcd0 might have done the trick (with 
the IDE kernel, of course).  Still had to do this after rebuilding.  Just as 
well, though.  Weeded out a lot of devices I don't have (like all the SCSI 
and Ethernet stuff).

>From there, if you are really adventurous, you can try to make an
>installation floppy that you can use for future installations.  How
>to do this is not well documented, which is why it will be an adventure.
>Apparently, FreeBSD is only set up to do this easily as part of making
>a complete release, so it takes a lot of fiddling to do it otherwise.  At
>least, that's what I was told by email by someone who had done it when I
>asked a few months ago.

Now there's a great suggestion for a new utility!

This is so cool, now that I can add packages and stuff from the CD!  Nice!

Conrad, pleased and proud (and it's my birthday, too!)  :-)

-- 
Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads/