Bug 37993
| Summary: | cdrom detected by kernel but not mounted during installation | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Bill O'Kane <wrokane> |
| Component: | installer | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | urkle |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2001-06-26 20:01:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Description
Bill O'Kane
2001-04-27 04:40:23 UTC
Try this: make a boot floppy with the boot.img found in the /images/ directory of the cdrom. Boot off this floppy, and then select CDROM as the installation type when prompted. Does this make things work ok? No, it will boot from the floppy but when I choose the CDROM installation type it gives an error "cdrom not found" I am haveing a similar problem installing RH7.1 on a system... The CDs work in another system. (different CD-ROM Drive) and in another system using the same CD-ROM drive. The kernel finds the cdrom drive, but when the installer actually tries to mount the cd it fails and exits. pressing alt-f3 (looking at the dmesg output) I see that there are a series of IO read errors on the CD device.. I can read the CD fine in RH7.0... What happened to the CD support in the 2.4 kernel??? What if you try booting with 'linux ide=nodma'. Does that help? unfortunately no.. eddie, what kind of cdrom drive are you seeing the problem with? What if you use a different cdrom drive in the system that you were originally seeing the problem with? wrokane, I must admit that I don't know what's causing this problem. I have not seen this problem before. Can you swap cdrom drives and see if that makes any difference? I haven't tried switching cdroms, but I have been able to install it on another machine with a different cdrom. I also tried remaking the iso's and attempted an installation on the problem machine from the hard-drive but the same sort of error occurs. Also tried "linux ide=nodma" and "linux hdc=ide-scsi" but neither works. If I get a chance this weekend I'll try a new drive in the machine. Ok. Let me know if a new drive fixes the problem. If it does, then there could be something wrong with the drive or with the way the kernel talks to the drive. Considering that the kernel does not identify the drive exactly right, that could be the problem. This report might need to be reassigned to the kernel. well, as this is a friends computer I can't test it very easily.. but, the nodma didn't fix it.. It has an AOPEN ax69pro Socket7 motherboard.and the CD is an AOPEN 40x The CDROM drive works in an older (P133 system) fine and boots the RH7.1 CDs so it could be the IDE controller on the motherboard. I had copied the ISOs to his harddrive and installed 7.1 off of the Harddrive and it worked fine. and it can access the CD-ROM fine now.. Another system I installed RH7.1 on had a problem with the mouse.. During installation it detected and used the PS/2 mouse fine.. but after installation the system HANGS when the PS/2 mouse is accessed.. (it actually undetected the mouse and I forced it with mouseconfig) Are the Kernels of the running system and the installation different??? that would be the only explanation for this problem.. Yes, the boot kernel is very stripped down compared to the normal kernel. It has to be smaller to fit on the boot floppy and still leave room for a few drivers. |