I'm having difficulty with the ISO image of FreeBSD 5.1. The same problem also appeared in 5.0, but since 5.1 had come out, I decided to try that before reporting this bug.
When booting the installer off the CD-ROM and doing a Standard install, you first get to the stage of partitioning a hard drive.
Then you get to the stage where distributions are chosen.
After that, it wants you to choose install media. I choose CD/DVD, and suddenly it says:
"No CD/DVD devices found!"
This is strange, since I clearly have been able to boot from it, and the boot loader seems to find it.
On a whim, I also tried to choose "Floppy" for the install, but that didn't work either:
"No floppy devices found!"
This is more than strange. It's truly bizarre.
In the boot loader it says:
BIOS CD is cd0 BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1
And just before it dumps into /stand/sysinstall, I get:
ata1-master: timeout waiting for interrupt ata1-master: ATAPI identify failed
The system is new, and has had no OS installed on it previously. I have upgraded the BIOS to the latest version.
Specifications:
- Microstar 865PE Neo2 LS mother board
- 3 x Intel 10/100 Desktop Adapter S cards. (Supported by the fxp driver)
- Cheap Geforce 4 MX based AGP graphics card
- Western Digital Special Edition 120 GB hard drive with 8 MB disk cache connected using the onboard ATA100 functionality. Master on the first IDE bus.
- Samsung CD-ROM drive connected to the second IDE bus as Master. Only does ATA33 with the cables I use.
- Floppy drive. :-)
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