Marc....the same symptoms happened to me on one of the three
machines that I was installing Air (mdk 7.0) on. I installed a
different cdrom drive in the problem machine and the symptoms
went away and I was able to accomplish the install with no
further problems.
Alan
Marc Herms wrote:
>
> I have downloaded the iso file (Mandrake 7.0) and put it on CD (Easy CD
> creator did everything for me, I just doubleclicked the iso file icon.).
>
> No problem so far. I can also boot from CD. All seems fine.
>
> BUT.. then it says LOADING.... and then "Loading second stage ramdisk" and
> the cursor blinks on the right side for quite a long time. After a while (5
> minutes or so...) it says "initializing CDROM" and the cursor blinks on the
> lower left... nothing else happens!!
>
> what`s up there and HOW can I resolve this?
>
> I have tried booting from floppy, but still when it goes to the CD to
> install it, it blocks...
>
> Please send me some remedies URGENTLY !!! Thanks,
>
> Marc
