CD Not Recognized after initial screen at install

[Daniela]

On Thursday 15 January 2004 15:25, David Armstrong wrote:
> Hi FreeBSD Folks,
>
> I'm installing FreeBSD and, although the installation can boot from the
> CD, when I select a CD/DVD as the installation source, it says it can't
> find the CD. Obviously, the BIOS can read the CD because it booted from
> it, but apparently FreeBSD seems to be unable to see it.

I had this too. In my case there were 2 drives and they were swapped, i.e. the 
first one was acd1, and the second one acd0.
I tried for several hours with both drives and had already started to pull my 
hair out when I found the solution.

Daniela