Installing FreeBSD from CD

[Ed Sutherland]

Hi Peter,

I've tried booting three times -- every time there is no 'acd0' listed. 
While my USB ports and printer are recognized, only my hard disk is seen 
-- no CD, I get this line during boot:

ad0: 19536MB .... at at0-master BIOSPIO

These boots have been reboot from Mac OSX with the C key held down and 
all the way until the 'mountroot>' prompt. I've also tried booting the 
CD, halting the process before it hits the kernel and issuing the 
'setcurrdev=cd;,' and 'boot -s' commands from the OpenFirmware prompt.

When I enter "cd9660:acd0" at the mountroot> prompt, I get this message:

Can't allocate root mount for filesystems
cd9600: 19

Root mount failed: 19


What's my next move? I like the look of FreeBSD and want to see more. 
Thanks.

Ed



Peter Grehan wrote:

> Hi Ed,
>
>> Okay. I booted from the cd and it stopped at the 'mountroot>' prompt. 
>> What do I enter here -- it is supposed to take the form of 
>> 'cd9660:acd0' but there  isn't any such device. Should this be my Mac 
>> partition, my Linux partition (which I'll convert to FreeBSD), or my 
>> CDROM? And how (from Mac OS X) do I determine what I need to enter?
>
>
>  You've got it right; you should be able to enter 'cd9660:acd0' at
> the mountroot prompt. Actually, you should be able to hold down the
> 'c' key at boot time with that CD image.
>
>  The acd0 ATA CDROM should show up in the boot log on your screen
> just before the mountroot prompt. This is what it looks like on my
> eMac:
>
>  ...
> gem0: Ethernet address: 00:03:93:a4:36:fe
> gem0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> sc0: <System console> on nexus0
> sc0: Unknown <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
> ad0: 39073MB <Maxtor 4D040H2> [79387/16/63] at ata0-master BIOSPIO
> ATAPI_RESET time = 580us
> acd0: CDRW <SONY CD-RW CRX170E> at ata1-master BIOSPIO
>
> Manual root filesystem specification:
>   <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>                       eg. ufs:/dev/da0a
>   ?                 List valid disk boot devices
>   <empty line>      Abort manual input
>
> mountroot>
>
>  It's shorthand to put 'acd0' instead of '/dev/acd0' as in the
> mountroot text, but it'll still work.
>
>  Are you seeing the disks probed correctly ?
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
>
>
>