On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, David M.Kufta wrote:
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> I just recieved in the post my 8.0 PowerPack which was so graciously given to
> me for helping with crash testing for 8.0
> When attempting to install from bootable CDROM, which is a creative
> cdrw6424, the cd is found when system boots but then when you recieve the
> welcome screen and choose the install vmlinuz loads and then can't find the
> cdrom drive and keeps sending back drive seek errors 0x40 0x30 and so on.
> I find this rather odd allthough I will say the only install I had done
> previously was from a local harddrive I use to mirror.
> I would appreciate any suggestions that anyone may have to offer.
I had a similar problem with a Toshiba laptop (w/ 7.2). When I created a
floppy with the cdrom.img from the CD, then booted with the floppy, it
worked.
A coworker today was having a problem booting from CD, so I wrote him a
cdrom.img floppy. Testing the floppy, on my own system, I noticed that if
it doesn't see a CD-ROM drive, it will offer a list of drivers to insert
to try & spin up an undeteced CD-ROM drive. Very nice touch. :)
-pete
