http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3199
Product: Installation
Component: stage1
Summary: Can't access CD-ROM at first stage of install
Version: 1.805
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: major
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to install 9.1 RC2 on a Gigabyte GA-8PE667Ultra2/Pro m/board. This uses
the Intel 845PE chipset, with onboard PDC20276 IDE/RAID controller. Having read
of the problems with the PDC20276, I am trying to avoid it in the first
instance, so have hard disk and CD-ROM on the standard IDE channels (1 & 2) and
have disabled the PDC20276 in BIOS.
Install from CD starts OK, but stops after looking for USB devices, with
message: "I can't access a Mandrake Linux Installation Disc in your CD-ROM
drive. Retry?". I cannot find any way to get it to recognise the CD in the drive
(e.g. loading ide-cd module does not help). If I do Alt-F4, I see the following
errors:
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x50
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 148
ISOFS: unable to read i-node block
I have tried passing noapic, acpi=off, hdc=nodma at the bootprompt, to no avail.
The CD-ROM drive and cable were lifted from another machine where they were
working fine, and I have tried swapping the cable for a brand-new one, just in
case. Only using 40-strand cable for the CD-ROM, but that should be OK as I
don't want UDMA-66+ for CD drive anyway.
I am trying an Intel CPU/mboard setup for the first time to see if it works
better with Mandrake than Athlon/Via, which I had been told might have been
partially responsible for the fact that Mandrake hasn't installed properly on
any machine since 9.0 was in beta. This is the eighth machine I have installed
9.0 or 9.1 betas/RCs/finals onto, and not one has installed without problem. If
it's me or the hardware I go for, then I sure am unlucky. Funny thing is, I
didn't used to be this unlucky before 9.0 :-(
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