The system is a Dell OptiPlex GXi 200 MHz Pentium with 64 MB of RAM and an Adaptec 2940U/UW SCSI controller. I have a DDS2 DAT tape drive (SCSI ID 6), SCSI CD-ROM (NEC at SCSI ID 5), and Seagate SCSI hard disk (SCSI ID 0).
I burned the Mandrake 9.0beta2 ISO images. When I try to boot to disk 1, it begins, but then gives me this message: ... isolinux: Starting up, DL = 00 isolinux: Loading spec packet failed, trying to wing it... isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed. I verified that the disk works in other PC's here at the office with EIDE CD-ROM drives. I have no other SCSI CD-ROM systems to test it on, however. This system currently has Red Hat 7.3 running on it, and none of the last several versions of Red Hat have had any problems installing. In addition, I was able to bring up the Mandrake 8.2 install. I tried using a boot floppy, and tried the cdrom image, the "other" image, and the two kernel images in the alternatives folder. I had no luck with any of them (same error). I was hoping to go ahead and do 9.0beta2, since my box at home, which has a similar role, has been working fine for several days now. Any suggestions? ----------------- Matt Harrell Plexus Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED]
