On 04/23/2010 06:51 AM, Ewald Jenisch wrote: > On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: >> >> ... >> Most remote management devices like Dell's DRAC and HP's iLO should >> present the drive to the OS as a USB rom. The new IPMI management >> cards are still unknown. > > Oops, now I understand. > > Just curious: Why can the machine boot off the CD/DVD then during > installation goes south - shouldn't it be either "I recognize this > drive" or "I don't recognize this drive"?
During boot, the loader uses the bios-supplied routines to load the kernel, modules, and md root. One would hope the bios knows how to communicate with its hardware. By the time sysinstall is running (from the preloaded memory disk), the kernel has mapped all the hardware it knows, and no longer utilizes the bios routines for I/O. Thus, if FreeBSD knows not of the hardware connecting the CD drive, it will not be able to present it as an option. Fortunately, once you get this far, you need not actually use the CD to install; network installation works quite well. -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <cyber...@cyberleo.net> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"