I have a similar problem. Also have 7.1 CD package and can't boot from CD - the
bios setting doesn't work. I have uninstalled PnP. As far as I can get is
"detecting CD ROM" and the "loading second image" message. The computer then
reboots into Windows or goes through the same thing again if i use a floppy.
One I managed to get it to go through CD probing manually. Matshita was not on
the list - although it's on Mandrake's official hardware list. I went
through all the other CDs that were found, but nothing else worked either.
Strange thing is, installation was successful on my other machine with almost
identical configuration. Any similar experiences, suggestions etc?
ABIT BH6 Mother board
300 Mhz Celeron (o'clocked to 450)
64 MB PC100 RAM
Trident Blade 3d PCI/AGP
Western Digital 6.4 GB HD
Realtek RTL8029(AS) 10/100 PCI Ethernet
Creative SB 16 (PCI version)
Matshita 40X CDROM CR 586
100MB Zip Drive
Thanks,
Brian
linus nuby wrote:
> I have been having trouble installing 7.1 from CD.
>
> Dell P166MMX
> Toshiba XM-6502B ATAPI cd-rom
>
> The bios won't let me boot from CD, so I had to boot from floppy.
> Everything goes well until it's time to change CDs. The drawer won't open
> on the drive.
>
> If I choose Cancel, the install finishes and I have a working Linux without
> the packages from the Apps CD. The drive works fine after install.
>
> If I spring the drive drawer, switch CDs and hit OK, install loops still
> asking for the Apps CD. When I choose Cancel after that, the machine
> freezes in post install mode.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanx
>
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