Installing FreeBSD from CD

[Peter Grehan]

Hi Ed,

> I tried boot -v. While most of the debugging info flew by too fast to 
> read, I did notice the hard disk and the hard disk partitions were 
> probed and recognized. At the end of of the boot process, I did not a 
> string of errors. Here they are:
> 
> APM Slice 13 (Extra/Apple) on ad0:
> GEOM: Configure ad013...
> umass0: Phase Error, residue = 0
> (probe 0:umass-sim0:0:0): Request Completed with CAM_REQ_ERR
> (probe1:...) Retrying command
> (probe1:...) error 22
> (probe1:...) Unretryable Error)
> (probe2...probe7) error 22
> (probe0:umass-sim0:0:0): Retries Exhausted

  That's OK - it's just the SCSI CAM code probing a USB memory stick
or CF adapter.

> I burned the iso a second time to be sure it wasn't the disc.  Should I 
> be entering 'set currdev=cd:,' at the OK prompt -- along with 'boot -s'?

  No, the result will be the same.

  I suspect what's wrong is that the macio ATA driver probe code is
not matching on the CD, which is very strange. There have been bugs
like this in the past (e.g. on revA iMacs), but the symptom is that
no disks at all are picked up.

  Earlier on in the boot sequence you should see something like:

...
ata0 mem 0x8a00-0x8aff,0x1f000-0x1ffff irq 19 on macio0
ata1 mem 0x8b00-0x8bff,0x20000-0x20fff irq 20 on macio0
ata2 mem 0x8c00-0x8cff,0x21000-0x21fff irq 21 on macio0
...

  Unfortunately I'm just about to head off on vacation, so I won't
be able to dig into this further. I guess another option for you
is to set up a net-boot. This is also described on the install page.

later,

Peter.