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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: Thu, 20 Jun 96 22:43:21 GMT
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In article <avg.835263620@news.cwi.nl>, avg@cwi.nl (Annius Groenink) wrote:
>conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier) writes:
>
>>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!  :-)
>
>
>Hm.  And I thought Linux was a pain to install.  Is there really no
>way to do this without compiling a complete new kernel first?
>
>Why is there no standard boot disk image for such a typical setup?
>The majority of IDE CDROM users will, I think, have a HD and CDROM
>on two different ports, both master.

Actually, the CD does include a kernel for IDE setups, but it wouldn't work 
for me.  Unlike my own kernel, it would recognize both controllers OK, but 
not the actual CD device, and then hang at the end of the boot scan (almost 
afraid to ask, but is it possible they forgot to uncomment "controller wcd0" 
in the config?).  :-)

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