[newbie] Cdrom problem

[S Wieland]

I think I did an uh-oh. I removed my rom drives (1 cdr, 1 dvd) from my 
mandrake 9.1, dell dimension 8100 to put into my new computer, and put 
an old cdrom from a OLD 233 pentium II into the dell/linux box. I didnt 
do any remove hardware thingy in linux nor was the box ON when i did it. 
At first it booted fine, maybe the first 2-3 boots and i never tried to 
test the cd-rom. After a few more days and 1 or 2 more boots i would get 
a cannot find secondary disk drive strike F1 to continue ( i have 2 hdd 
in the linux box). no problem to me because i havent gotten far enough 
to use the second disk ( i think :-/). To keep this long and boring 
story short I am now wanting to install mandrake 9.2 or Mandrake Move 
(any suggestions onto which one?)  but my cd rom is not detected in the 
bios. I was thinking that it was a connection issue so i opened it up 
and all the proper cables are in the proper areas. This leading me to 
believe it may be a bad cable. Ive come up to two conclusions. 1. 
putting back the original roms and original cable or 2. maybe there is a 
floppy boot disk i can use that will enable a driver for the cdrom.
Any help or "hey everybody lets point and laugh at the kid withhis pants 
down" would be greatly aprreciated
thanks a billion
-boardrider


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