Re: [newbie] cdrom failure
On Friday 26 December 2003 18:40, ronald wrote: Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 19:07, schreef John: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. Thanks john is your bios set to boot from cd first? if so try cd2... if you have a working system you can also read the install.htm on cd1 and create a bootfloppy HTH ronald I think I read somewhere that some older systems wouldn't boot from a cd if the drive was mounted as slave. Could that be your problem? OTOH, I have been working on a friend's M$ box, where I had the greatest difficulty persuading it to boot from a cd, so there may be other possibilities. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom failure
On Saturday 27 December 2003 06:24 am, Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 26 December 2003 18:40, ronald wrote: is your bios set to boot from cd first? if so try cd2... if you have a working system you can also read the install.htm on cd1 and create a bootfloppy HTH ronald I think I read somewhere that some older systems wouldn't boot from a cd if the drive was mounted as slave. Could that be your problem? OTOH, I have been working on a friend's M$ box, where I had the greatest difficulty persuading it to boot from a cd, so there may be other possibilities. Anne I reset the jumper on the new cdrom to master and installed. Everything worked fine. 9.2 installed ok and i am downloading the updates. Thanks to everyone for their responses and help. Best wishes to everyone for the upcoming new year. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom failure
Op vrijdag 26 december 2003 19:07, schreef John: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. Thanks john is your bios set to boot from cd first? if so try cd2... if you have a working system you can also read the install.htm on cd1 and create a bootfloppy HTH ronald -- Registered Linux User #163597 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom failure
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:07 am, John wrote: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. Thanks john I'm _w_ late to this thread so if you've already posted this information please excuse me. Are either or both CDROMs LG? If so do they have the latest firmware installed *before* you try to boot from a 9.2 install disk? If not they're probably dead but may be recoverable. Is the boot order in the BIOS set to boot from CD first or from hard drive first? Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 11:36:20 up 5 days, 21:25, 1 user, load average: 0.08, 0.13, 0.10 To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question ... or is it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7IOhZqvqlrLPr5YRAhCbAJ4nbNIBFtTRR2poA5pnPMLIcHTgEQCbBMOV B32fVbT3OMYh2Gk0LuH9bOI= =mOLY -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cdrom failure
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Mahan Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 1:53 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cdrom failure -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 11:07 am, John wrote: I put in a new cdrom and system still won't boot from 9.2 installation cd. It apparently skips the cd boot and goes into the regular boot with md 9.1. Are there any other possibilities? My only thoughts right now are to possibly try a hammer but I would probably miss and hit my thumb. Any help is appreciated. Thanks john I'm _w_ late to this thread so if you've already posted this information please excuse me. Are either or both CDROMs LG? If so do they have the latest firmware installed *before* you try to boot from a 9.2 install disk? If not they're probably dead but may be recoverable. Is the boot order in the BIOS set to boot from CD first or from hard drive first? Hi It is not an lg.It is a teac cdrw. Everything was working fine up until last week. Cdrom quit working and then the update killed X. 9.2 cd's came in and thought this would be a good time to install. System won't boot from cd. I have checked the bios and the boot sequence is cdrom,removable device(floppy), hardrive, network. I picked up a new cendyne cdrw this morning and tried it. Same results-doesn't work. All that happens is the led blinks continuously. john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] cdrom failure
Is the boot order in the BIOS set to boot from CD first or from hard drive first? Hi It is not an lg.It is a teac cdrw. Everything was working fine up until last week. Cdrom quit working and then the update killed X. 9.2 cd's came in and thought this would be a good time to install. System won't boot from cd. I have checked the bios and the boot sequence is cdrom,removable device(floppy), hardrive, network. I picked up a new cendyne cdrw this morning and tried it. Same results-doesn't work. All that happens is the led blinks continuously. john hello again just re-installed new cdrom and changed the jumper to master on the back of the cdrom. Cd-rom worked. Am getting ready to load 9.2. Will be back. Thanks for your responses john Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cdrom failure
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday 26 December 2003 12:38 pm, John wrote: whack hello again just re-installed new cdrom and changed the jumper to master on the back of the cdrom. Cd-rom worked. Am getting ready to load 9.2. Will be back. Thanks for your responses john You are quick! (-: That was going to be my next question. Have fun with 9.2. Don't forget about the update-menus errata and a few others, and if you're going to install an upgrade kernel I'd recommend the tmb or multi media ones. Or even a 2.6 but that may be a bit much. Kind of a pain in the assets. I've installed one, I just haven't wanted to reboot. Regards; Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User #244963 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Linux release 9.2 (FiveStar) for i586 kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.1mdk 12:50:50 up 5 days, 22:39, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.14, 0.08 Great American Axiom: If some is good, then more is better, and too much is just right. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/7JIyZqvqlrLPr5YRAhdZAJ9CyYzDpDW97/jMor1BF6sg/6+w9gCfWvZy qEIXkVS7x/ojsHBJonkqi+w= =7oHa -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
