On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, ill...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 June 2013 11:11, ill...@gmail.com <ill...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
Aha, from install.txt:
| CD-ROM drives:
| Mitsumi CDROM drive with Mitsumi Controller
| Most SCSI CD-ROM drives on a supported SCSI controller
So I suppose no IDE.
The cdins_ah.flp image says it supports IDE, but I bet you're right,
that's only for disks. qemu can emulate a SCSI CD-ROM, I think.
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