Chris;
I had exactly the same problem. Turned out it was my CD drive. I was
burning my images (on a different box) onto CD-RW's. The box I was
trying to load wouldn't read them, giving the impression that it could
not identify the drive.
Try burning the image onto a CDR instead. It worked on mine.
Ric
Ortmann, Chris (TIFPC) wrote:
> I realize this should probably go on the newbie list, but I'm already on
> this list.
>
> I've been running RedHat and Mandrake for years now, and it wasn't until
> recently with Mandrake 7.2 that I've run into trouble with the install. I'm
> using burned copies of the downloadable cd-images. I have attempted using
> the cdrom.img on a bootdisk, but the problem ends up the same.
>
> The install (whether I use the standard, text, or even expert mode) will
> never error out, but rather hangs up at the same spot each time. It'll
> create the secondary ramdisk, (reading it off the CD just fine) but when it
> gets to the "Initliazing CDROM..." message the install hangs. My guess is
> it's having truoble mounting the CDrom drive for some reason. I've
> considered the possibility that the drive may have problems with burnt CD's,
> and also realize that some older hardware has trouble booting from CD's.
> The thing is though, that it will boot just fine. It just hangs at that
> part of the install. Anyone ever experience this before?
>
> Thanks for any and all input.
>
> -Chris
>
>
