Hello, This is a problem I haven't been able to solve.
Hi. I'm very new to Linux so I bought the 3 CD pack for Mandrake 8.1 expecting the installation to be pretty much trouble free. Unfortuantely, after the initial setup/ welcome screen using the boot disk and bootable CD-ROM, the setup said that it couldn't find an installation CD in the CD-ROM. The error message is as follows: "I can't access a Mandrake-Linux Installation disk in your CDROM Drive". By looking in the setup log I also saw some of these messages: <4>ide0: Drive 1 didn't accept speed setting, Oh well <4>hdb: Status timed-out <4>hdb: DMA Disabled <4>hdb: drive not ready for command <4>isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=3.40, iso_blknum=151339 and other stuff like this If you guys don't know of any solutions off the top of your heads then I guess I'll see if we can get it up and runing at the Installfest. Thanks. ///////// He has a DFI motherboard with Award BIOS. bios version is current. CD rom is primary slave, HD is primary master This problem also occurs when using RedHat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1 We tried two copies of the installmedia, so the disk wasn't bad. Demo Linux boots just fine off of the CD-Rom. ///////// First of all, thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I built the computer myself and currently I have Win 98 and Win 2K on two seperate primary partitions. Then I used PartitionMagic 5.0 to create a Linux partition. Anyway, the CD-ROM is bootable, but since I was having trouble with just booting off the CD-ROM I tried it again with a bootdisk. I think that I'm using the cdrom.img file if that is what you mean by the image file - the actual CD is from MandrakeSoft. Also, windows has no trouble booting from the CD-ROM. I got an email from Eric Sandall and I asked him what the situation is with getting rides to the Installfest and what all peripherials we need to bring. I can bring my Mandrake 8.1 CD's, but do I need to bring anything else besides my tower (i.e. monitor, keyboard, mouse)? Anyway, thanks for the help. Travis Chamberlain ====================== Travis Chamberlain >From: "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: "Aaron Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Travis Chamberlain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LUG] Mandrake 8.1 installation problem >Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 03:36:29 -0800 > >boot disk and bootable > > CD-ROM, > >a boot disk is not required with a bootable CD-ROM > >newer Computers can boot from the CD-rom. > >go into the bios to enable boot off CDt. >delete or a function key will get you into the bios. > >(good stuff to include in any request for help) >What disk image did you use? >What kind of computer do you have? > >-installfest is on 11-14-2001 we can help more then. > >Oh, for trouble shooting... does your windows cd boot?
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