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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uuneo.neosoft.com!mypc 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 Organization: What? Me, organize? Lines: 40 Message-ID: <4q2qag$18k_006@mypc.neosoft.com> References: <4pv7nq$14c_004@mypc.neosoft.com> <4q2o29$nlj@news1.halcyon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.27.165.172 X-Newsreader: News Xpress 2.0 Beta #1 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/