On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:01:34 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote:
>>> I finally fudged things. I set the bios so that it recognized the >>> cdrom and installed Debian Linux. I then rebooted, F2ed to the bios >>> and changed it so that it could find the hard drive. That worked. >>> Since I don't have to boot to the cdrom very often I can live with >>> it. I'm tired of fooling with the problem. >>> >>> >> Mmm, is the CD-ROM unit still visible/accessible within the OS? If not, >> you can try to connect it to port IDE1 (same as the hard disk) as >> slave, that could make a difference (buy a longer IDE cable if the >> devices are separated enough) or extract the optical unit and use it >> with an external USB case. >> >> >> > Yes, the cd unit is visible within the OS. Everything is working fine. I > installed an additional drive on the same IDE port as a slave. With > ATA/IDE Configure set to Legacy the bios recognizes both drives but not > the CDROM. Just as before. Once booted, everything works fine. It's indeed weird, but at least now you know a slave unit conneted to the master IDE port is also detected and thus you can use it to boot from there, should needed. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jm40to$3l4$3...@dough.gmane.org
