this quote however is from the faq for redhat 6.1, i must say their faqs
seem more comprehensive than mandrake's,
quote begins:
4.2 Installation problems with IDE CD-ROM
Question:
Linux is having trouble detecting my IDE CD-ROM drive during the
installation. Can I force the installer to see it?
Answer:
Sometimes IDE CD-ROM drives will not be detected either due to the fact
that they are on a IDE channel the BIOS doesn't
know about, or that when queried, replies back with data that Linux
thinks is bogus. (Early NEC IDE CD-ROMs respond
with data saying that it is an IDE floppy drive instead of a CD-ROM.)
To solve your problem, you need to specify the the CD-ROM drive from the
LILO boot prompt.
When you see
boot:
or
LILO:
You need to type in
linux hdX=cdrom
where X is the IDE letter that Linux would specify for that drive
depending on which IDE bus it is on.
quote ends
sounds like this could be your problem, your successful install only had
one hard disk right? i'd try this before anything else
bascule
mendes wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, you wrote:
> > during the boot up messages when you run the install disk, do you see
> > references to the cdrom drive being found?
>
> No, but I think this is because the cdrom is attached to a sound card. I
> tried something simailr with on old 486 and worked. cdrom.img managed to get
> the cdrom as sbpc.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Ed
>
> i just installed red hat 6.0
> > on a very old vlb 486 on account of mandrake being i586 optimised and i
> > had loads of difficulty, after messing with changing master/slave
> > options for the drive and using a different ide interface i eventually
> > got a reference to 'hdd atapi 8x cdrom found' in the messages scolling
> > on the screen at boot up, prior to this i had the problem with not being
> > able to find an appropriate module and i noticed at that time that only
> > the hard disk was being 'found' at boot up
> >
> > bascule
> >
> > mendes wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello
> > > I am trying to install Mandrake-7.02 (486 iso) on a 486 PC/33 with
> > > 20MB and 2 HDs: 210 MB and 1.08 GB. It has a CD (Creative 1220 E) attached to a
> > > Sound Blaster Card 16. I created a boot disk using a cdrom.img. I tried all the
> > > modules for cdrom available (sbpc etc.) and got nothing. The cd is working
> > > pretty fine on Windows. I run out of ideas. Can you help me?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot.
> > >
> > > Eduardo
