Booting FreeBSD 1.0

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 27 June 2013 11:11, illoai at gmail.com <illoai at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 27 June 2013 10:46, Julian H. Stacey <jhs at berklix.com> wrote:
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>> 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.

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