"No CD/DVD devices found" after booting from FreeBSD 6.2 CD 1

[Remko Lodder]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 11:01:29PM -0500, Isaac Grover wrote:
> Good evening,
> 
> I am attempting to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell Dimension
> C521n (no Windows pre-installed) with a Sony model DDU1615S CD/DVD
> drive as the chosen boot media.  Booting from the CD shows that the CD
> drive shows up as cd, and after doing the fdisk/disklabel stuff,
> trying to choose the CD drive as the chosen boot media gives me an
> error window with the message "No CD/DVD devices found".  I would
> include a dmesg output if I knew how to get to it during an install.
> Why can't FreeBSD see the CD drive after sysinstall starts when it can
> clearly see it before sysinstall starts?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -- 

Hello,

Please refer to the questions mailinglist instead first, this might
or might not yet be something that the -bugs team / mailinglist
should handle. You can find the information for the list on
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Goodluck.

-- 
Kind regards,

     Remko Lodder               ** remko at elvandar.org
     FreeBSD                    ** remko at FreeBSD.org

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