CD device no longer works in new FreeBSD releases?

[John Baldwin]

On Wednesday 15 March 2006 05:10, disposable42-fm at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> Not sure if this is the right place for this question, but I've been trying
> to get FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE working on a laptop, a Compaq Armada V300.
> I boot the installation off the CD drive, go through the setup process
> fine, but when I have to choose the installation method, it reports `No CD
> devices found!'. Disabling ACPI didn't do anything, either.
> I remembered I had an old FreeBSD 4.10 disk lying around, so I gave that a
> go as a last resort, and lo and behold, it worked- it installed everything
> off the first CD. Haven't tried 5.x, I assume the latest release would
> support the most hardware.
> 
> Were some drivers removed after 4.x, or isn't the installer detecting the
> CDROM? Is there any way to fix this, or should I stick to 4.x (or, eek,
> Linux)? It's a `CRN-8241B' if that helps, but anything that turns up on
> Google seems to be about 4.x, and works fine.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance, but apologies if I've posted to the wrong place.

Would you be able to capture the dmesg from the 6.0 kernel using a
serial console or some other means?  Also, would you be able to provide
a dmesg from the 4.x kernel?

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