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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: I have downloaded the RH Lin. 7.1 ISOs from the site, extracted them and burned to CD (stupid Nero Burning tool), but when the installation tool boots (and it can boot from the CD) it enters the text mode and stops with the message: "I could not find a Red Hat Linux CDROM in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Red Hat CD and press "OK" to retry" If I press OK, the same message reapears. In the console found at Alt-F3 message "* trying to mount device hdc" is displayed. What is even more curious is that if I make the ISOs back from the disks and put them on the HD, the installer doesn't complain. Because I have to do another installation it would be impossible to use this method again. I have already ordered te official Red Hat package, but because of the time frame I am in, I need this ASAP How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Insert CD and boot 2.Choose the language and keyboard 3.Choose to install from CDROM 4. System hangs Actual Results: I could not find a Red Hat Linux CDROM in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Red Hat CD and press "OK" to retry Expected Results: Continuation of installation Additional info: I was quite able to install Red Hat Linux 7.0 using the same procedure that I have described.
You need to make a boot disk with the boot.img file in the /images directory of the cdrom. Boot off that floppy and then select CDROM as the installation media. Please reopen this bug if this doesn't fix the problem.
No, the problem is not in the booting image as the system boots correctly, but in the access to the CDROM. I have tried both ways - booting from diskette, and booting from CDROM - it boots, but doesn't load from CDROM.
Are you sure that there's nothing wrong with the cd? 7.1 used a 2.88MB boot image, and some motherboards were not able to see the second stage installer on the cd if you booted off the cd. Booting with a floppy avoids this problem, but if you still can't see the cdrom, I don't know what the problem is.
Well, I think that everything is OK with the CD.. You can read from it in 7.0, you can read from it in 7.1 once installed, you can create ISO from it... One idea: is there some kind of FS support for ISO (like Joliet extension, or something like that) that is not built into the kernel on the diskette image, but is built into the standard kernel? I am asking this because I wasn't able to burn the CD straight from the ISO (Nero Burner doesn't have this option), but had to extract the ISOs, and then burn them as files on the CDROM. I have enabled Joliet extension to allow for long filenames. Apart from this, I have no other idea... Perhaps some sort of copyright protection you have built into CD ISO image?
No no no, there is no copyright protection built in to the ISO images. The cd's are not going to work if you extract the files and simply burn them to the cd. I am surprised that the cd even boots at all. You need to find a different cd burning application that will let you burn an iso to the cdrom, and then things will work. This is not an installer bug...the cd's were burned incorrectly.