Have you experimented with master/slave/cable-select settings on the
CDROM? Are you sure the MDK CD's are good? Check for bios updates
for the motherboard? Just some ideas, hope they help.
Sincerely,
Jim Hubbard
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nikunj Bansal
> Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 5:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] ABIT BD-711 motherboard problems with Mandrake
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I recently upgraded the motherboard and the CPU on my
> PC and am unable to
> use or install Mandrake (tried versions 8.2 and 9.0)
> after that. On the
> other hand, the previous RedHat 9.0 install on another
> partition on the
> same PC works fine as well as RedHat 9.0 Install CD
> works fine too.
>
> The new Motherboard is ABIT BD-711 and new CPU is
> Intel Celeron 1.8GHz.
> First of all my old install of Mandrake 8.2 wont boot
> on the new setup. So
> I tried installing anew. However, both 8.2 and 9.0
> installs give an error
> "No CDROM device found" in the initial stages of the
> install itself.
>
> So, I did more experimentation on my setup. Apparently
> any IDE devices
> plugged into the motherboard IDE controller are not
> being recognized by the
> Mandrake installed kernel as well as the Mandrake
> Install CD kernel. How do
> I know this? Because I have a PCI-IDE bridge too and
> when I plugged my
> CDRom and the hard disk into this controller and boot
> from the floppy using
> the cdrom.img on it, the install starts recognizing
> these. However this
> way, I cannot use CDROMs to boot my PC at all and I
> dont wish to configure
> this way.
>
> Anyone seen any similar problems before with
> ABIT-BD-711 or some other
> motherboard? Any pointers will be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Nikunj.
>
>
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