On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0400, Lindsay Morris wrote: > I'm trying to install from the debian GNU/Linux release 2.1 CDROM. > > The CDROM is the Sony PCGA-CD5, the vaio-branded PCMCIA CDROM. > > The Vaio boots from the CDROM with the Linux install CD in it, and > starts the installation - but when it gets to the "Install Base OS > Kernal" step, it asks me where the CDROM is, then fails to mount it no > matter which of the many choices I give it (SCSI, IDE ctrl 1-4, device > 1-2). > > Somewhere I read that at the boot prompt you have to type something like > "linux ide2=0x170,0x376". I looked in my windows 98 ctonrol panel, > system, device manager, hard disk controllers, second ide controller, > and found the settings for it: 0x170, 0x 376, IRQ 15. > > I typed them in at the boot prompt: linux ide2=0x170,0x376,0xf > > but I got the same behavior as before, ie it can't mount the cd rom > during the install. > > Anybody have answers, hints? Thanks....
Just a shot in the dark, but you might want to try ide1, as that's the name for the second HD controller. Adam