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Add a question about booting from ATAPI CD-ROMs which then disappear when

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you try to install from them, typically because they're the slave on an IDE
controller with no master.  Based on text from Michael Lucas
<mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
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</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.61 2000/06/14 19:49:18 alex Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.62 2000/06/20 11:12:00 alex Exp $</pubdate>
<abstract>
<para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X. All entries
@ -1409,6 +1409,29 @@ FTP client if you can.</para>
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>I booted from my ATAPI CD-ROM, but the install program says no
CD-ROM is found. Where did it go?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured CD-ROM
drive. Many PCs now ship with the CD-ROM as the slave device on
the secondary IDE controller, with no master device on that
controller. This is illegal according to the ATAPI specification,
but Windows plays fast and loose with the specification, and the
BIOS ignores it when booting. This is why the BIOS was able to
see the CD-ROM to boot from it, but why FreeBSD can not see it to
complete the install.</para>
<para>Reconfigure your system so that the CD-ROM is either the
master device on the IDE controller it is attached to, or make
sure that it is the slave on an IDE controller that also has a
master device.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
<para>Help! I can't install from tape!</para></question><answer>

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</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.61 2000/06/14 19:49:18 alex Exp $</pubdate>
<pubdate>$FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/faq/book.sgml,v 1.62 2000/06/20 11:12:00 alex Exp $</pubdate>
<abstract>
<para>This is the FAQ for FreeBSD versions 2.X, 3.X, and 4.X. All entries
@ -1409,6 +1409,29 @@ FTP client if you can.</para>
</answer></qandaentry>
<qandaentry>
<question>
<para>I booted from my ATAPI CD-ROM, but the install program says no
CD-ROM is found. Where did it go?</para>
</question>
<answer>
<para>The usual cause of this problem is a mis-configured CD-ROM
drive. Many PCs now ship with the CD-ROM as the slave device on
the secondary IDE controller, with no master device on that
controller. This is illegal according to the ATAPI specification,
but Windows plays fast and loose with the specification, and the
BIOS ignores it when booting. This is why the BIOS was able to
see the CD-ROM to boot from it, but why FreeBSD can not see it to
complete the install.</para>
<para>Reconfigure your system so that the CD-ROM is either the
master device on the IDE controller it is attached to, or make
sure that it is the slave on an IDE controller that also has a
master device.</para>
</answer>
</qandaentry>
<qandaentry><question>
<para>Help! I can't install from tape!</para></question><answer>