Dan,
Thanks for your input.
I fixed the problem and it installed fine now. Anyway, here's the answer to your
question for the record and in the hope it may steer others in the right direction
with similar problems.
My video card is Trident Blade 3D PCI/AGP (v6.50.5452-11a) and works with Mandrake.
My Abit m'board/BIOS are about a year old and there all kinds of software settings
for making CDROMS, Zips, etc bootable on start up. So, theoretically, there shouldn't
have been any problem having the CDROM boot. I had disabled PnP in the BIOS settings.
However, in the end what worked was setting the BIOS to default. I still don't know
specifically what did the trick. I didn't need to do that on my other machine with
the same board/BIOS setup and it installed ok. The only major difference was the make
of CDROM - the machine with the Matshita gave me the problem.
Brian
Dan LaBine wrote:
> Brian King wrote:
>
> > Thanks Charles. I solved the problem by putting all bios settings to default on
> > my Abit motherboard. Everything installed perfectly.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > Charles A Edwards wrote:
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Brian King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 4:42 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] cd install dilemma
> > >
> > > > I have a similar problem. Also have 7.1 CD package and can't boot from
> > > CD - the
> > > > bios setting doesn't work. I have uninstalled PnP. As far as I can get is
> > > > "detecting CD ROM" and the "loading second image" message. The computer
> > > then
> > > > reboots into Windows or goes through the same thing again if i use a
> > > floppy.
> > > > One I managed to get it to go through CD probing manually. Matshita was
> > > not on
> > > > the list - although it's on Mandrake's official hardware list. I went
> > > > through all the other CDs that were found, but nothing else worked either.
> > > >
> > > > Strange thing is, installation was successful on my other machine with
> > > almost
> > > > identical configuration. Any similar experiences, suggestions etc?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Brian
> > > Use a Win Start Disk to boot to your CD-Rom. This will load the drivers
> > > and you should be able to run the Mandrake CD.
> > >
> > > Charles
>
> Brian ; What kind of video card are you running?? If your video card is not
> compatible with Mandrake, the install won't proceed. Also, your CD-Rom may not be
> boot-able if your BIOS is a few years old. One last thing. Did you disable "Plug
> and Play aware O/S" in your BIOS ?? Hope this helps.
>
> Dan LaBine
> (Soon to be a registered Linux User!)
