How do I make 6.0-RELEASE see cdrom in Virtual PC 7 (OS X)?

[Xn Nooby]

I posted about this a few months ago, and emailed the guy at Microsoft who
has the blog about VPC7.  I never got anywhere, and eventually gave up. His
blogchart says FreeBSD "works" with VPC7, which seemed wrong to me.



On 3/20/06, Rocco Caputo <rcaputo at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> The good news is that FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE ISOs and floppy images boot
> under Virtual PC 7.0.2 for OS X.  Networking works, and I can install
> the rest of the system from FTP.
>
> The bad news is that it doesn't see the cdrom once it has booted, so
> it can't install anything from CD.  I already downloaded the ISOs, so
> I'd prefer to just grab the files from them.  As a compromise, I'll
> probably set up an ftpd on my LAN, but I'd really like to get the
> cdrom working.
>
> Does anyone have notes to make this work?  Kernel boot messages are
> included for the curious.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Rocco Caputo - rcaputo at pobox.com - http://poe.perl.org/
>
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986,
> 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: The Regents of the University of
> California. All rights reserved.
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3
> 09:36:13 UTC 2005
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: root at x64.samsco.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/
> GENERIC
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
> quality 0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: CPU: Pentium Pro (1050.43-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: Origin = "Virtual CPU "  Id = 0x684
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: real memory  = 268435456 (256 MB)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: avail memory = 253222912 (241 MB)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: npx0: [FAST]
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: cpu0 on motherboard
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: pcib0: <Intel 82443BX host to PCI bridge
> (AGP disabled)> pcibus 0 on motherboard
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on
> pci0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller>
> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1
> on pci0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: pci0: <old, non-VGA display device> at
> device 7.2 (no driver attached)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: pci0: <bridge> at device 7.3 (no driver
> attached)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: pci0: <display, VGA> at device 8.0 (no
> driver attached)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ohci0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller>
> irq 9 at device 9.0 on pci0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: usb0: OHCI version 1.0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: usb0: <OHCI (generic) USB controller> on
> ohci0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: usb0: USB revision 1.0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: uhub0: (0x2955) OHCI root hub, class 9/0,
> rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: uhub0: 15 ports with 15 removable, self
> powered
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: de0: <Digital 21041 Ethernet> port
> 0xec00-0xec7f mem 0xfebff000-0xfebfffff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: de0: 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: de0: Ethernet address: 00:03:ff:7e:ac:35
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: pmtimer0 on isa0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem
> 0xc0000-0xc9fff on isa0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at
> port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: psm0: model IntelliMouse, device ID 3
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f
> irq 7 on isa0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in
> COMPATIBLE mode
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10
> on isa0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: sio0: type 16550A
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: sio1: type 16550A
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port
> 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: unknown: <PNP0c01> can't assign resources
> (memory)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources
> (port)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: unknown: <PNP0f13> can't assign resources
> (irq)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources
> (port)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources
> (port)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: unknown: <PNP0400> can't assign resources
> (port)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: unknown: <PNP0c02> can't assign resources
> (port)
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1050434528 Hz
> quality 800
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: de0: enabling 10baseT port
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: ad0: 20479MB <Virtual HD 1. 1> at ata0-
> master WDMA2
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> Mar 20 12:04:20 vpc savecore: no dumps found
> Mar 20 12:04:21 vpc named[393]: starting BIND 9.3.1 -u bind -t /var/
> named
> Mar 20 12:04:21 vpc named[393]: command channel listening on
> 127.0.0.1#953
> Mar 20 12:04:21 vpc named[393]: command channel listening on ::1#953
> Mar 20 12:04:21 vpc named[393]: zone 0.0.127.IN-ADDR.ARPA/IN: loading
> master file master/localhost.rev: file not found
> Mar 20 12:04:21 vpc named[393]: zone
> 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.IP6.ARPA
> /IN: loading master file master/localhost-v6.rev: file not found
> Mar 20 12:04:21 vpc named[393]: running
> Mar 20 12:04:22 vpc kernel: Accounting enabled
> Mar 20 12:04:23 vpc lpd[487]: lpd startup: logging=0
> Mar 20 12:04:28 vpc login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
>
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