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 and my main HDD to boot my PC at all (will have to use floppy all the time) 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. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
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