Hi, How to perform CD installation without any disk attached to on-board IDE controller?
THE PROBLEM: I have the newest PC hardware with Pentium 4 Northwood, 1024 MB DDR-RAM and the following combination of IDE-ATAPI devices: On-board IDE Controller ---------------------------------------------------------------- primary master /dev/hda Toshiba DVD-ROM SD-M1612 secondary master /dev/hdc Plextor CD-RW PX-W40/12A PCI Promise Ultra-133 IDE Controller ------------------------------------------------------------------- primary master /dev/hde 60 GB IBM IC35L060 AVVA07-0 primary slave /dev/hdf 60 GB IBM IC35L060 AVVA07-0 secondary master /dev/hdg 60 GB IBM IC35L060 AVVA07-0 It is impossible to perform CD Installation because Mandrake 8.2 regular distribution (kernel 2.4.18.6mdk-1-1mdk) detects only Promise IDE Controller and three disks attached to it as /dev/hda, /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc respective. Both CD devices attached to on-board IDE Controller remain unrecognized. So, I had to perform hard-disk installation over one Windows partition. Installation was successful and everything worked fine but without any chance to use CD devices (note that RedHat 7.3 installation detects CD devices, but don't detect Promise Controller and any disk). And then I have downloaded and installed kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk (Mandrake 8.2 Updates). After changing the /etc/fstab file (/dev/hda and /dev/hdc as CD devices - /dev/hde, /dev/hdf and /dev/hdg as disk devices) the problem was finaly solved. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk detects properly all devices and everything works fine. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Unfortunatelly, the Mandrake 9.0beta2 distribution (downloaded as three ISO files) sufer from the same problem. Kernel 2.4.18.22mdk-1-1mdk don't recognize CD devices. The same is truth with the newest kernel-2.4.19.11mdk-1-1mdk downloaded from Mandrake Cooker site. Today many professionals and casual users own PC hardware with two or more disks all attached to independent PCI Controller, remaining on-board IDE Controller only for CD devices. It is very important that BOOT-kernel as well as regular kernel be built with the same options as from 8.2 distribution updated kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk-1-3mdk. Otherwise, the CD Installation for that community will be impossible. Regards Niksa Jurinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED]
