On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey <j...@berklix.com> wrote: > Warren Block wrote: > > Yes, 1.0, from November 1993. The install CD is here: > > > http://ftp-archive.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE/ > > > > emulators/qemu boots from the floppy image in the cdinstal directory, > > but reports "no cdrom found". > > > > I managed to find a Pentium 4 system with a working floppy drive, found > > a working disk, made the boot floppy, and then booted it. It boots and > > reports the same thing. Putting the CD drive on a separate IDE bus or > > as a secondary on the same bus as the hard drive makes no difference. > > Chipset too new, maybe. > > > > Any ideas short of "find an original Pentium system that still works"? > > I recall FreeBSD CDROM images have had 2 different types of boot > sequences, I think it matched evolving generations of BIOS support. > The change was some years back. Maybe qemu only supports the newer of the > 2 > CD boot methods. > > Is there perhaps a way to emulate a SCSI CD drive? Those tend to work no matter what.
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