I hope somebody can give my some advice. My problem is that my cd-rom drive is not always recognised by the BIOS when my machine starts up, I have the bios set to auto configure. When this happens it does not appear in the Debian startup screen. and when I try to mount it I get a message like invalid block device.
I had this problem before and the bios seemed only to recognise the drive when on a cold boot or a warm boot when a data cd was in the drive. However as Win95/NT both managed to use the drive irrespective of wether the Bios found it I did not bother about it to much and was told that it is just a qurk of ide. I am a little disappointed that Debian (hamm) has problems. I have just reinstalled Debian, as i made a complete mess of my last instellation, everything worked well the machine booted from the CDrom but when it came time to run dselect it would not recognise the drive. Fortunately I have a HP 7200i CDRW so I was able to use this to finish the instellation. Since then i sometimes can read the Cdrom and sometimes I cannot. This problem with the BIOS has not been happening for quite some time and I don't know why it has returned as i don't seem to have done any thing to coincide with it. I have a P200MMX, Abit TX5 ATX mboard. 3.2 Gb hd as primary master. Phillips 24X CD-Rom as Secondary Master and HP7200i as secondary slave. I have flashed the m'board bios with the latest updates but to no avail. BTW I am running hamm Thanks in advance. and sorry about the spellin Noel