> If there's more than one CD device you'll get a prompt asking which to > use.
...which is precisely what happens under 7.X So, now that I have it installed, when I am logged into the machine I have these devices in /dev: crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 89 7 Dec 02:39 /dev/acd0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 90 7 Dec 02:39 /dev/acd0t01 Which does indeed look like a music CD is there! If I connect up the iLO then I get this in dmesg: ugen5.4: <HP> at usbus5 umass0: <Virtual CD-ROM> on usbus5 umass0: 8070i (ATAPI) over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000 umass0:2:0:-1: Attached to scbus2 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): TEST UNIT READY. CDB: 0 0 0 0 0 0 (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM status: SCSI Status Error (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI status: Check Condition (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI sense: UNIT ATTENTION asc:28,0 (Not ready to ready change, medium may have changed) cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0 cd0: <HP Virtual DVD-ROM \\0000.0> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 1.000MB/s transfers cd0: cd present [352624 x 2048 byte records] and lo and behlod, in /dev we now have: crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 89 7 Dec 02:39 /dev/acd0 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 90 7 Dec 02:39 /dev/acd0t01 crw-r----- 1 root operator 0, 122 7 Dec 09:00 /dev/cd0 So, what I think is that somehow the sysinstall environment is not seeing that USB CD. I am not too familiar with how booting up to do an install works though - but I do know that the USB stack changed in 8 (and I have had probnlems booting USB sticks too since then as they dont seem to find root, as the drive is only detected somewhat later in the process). Anything else I can do to diagnose this ? Is there a way inside the install environment to see what the kernel has detected and created in /dev ? -pete. _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"