Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 52005
installation program can not find red hat cd-rom in any of my cd-rom drives
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:36:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98) Description of problem: hi, I have a quite long problem history with the guys at RedHat support and I will attach those at the attechment part. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.boot from CD or diskette 2.choose any ype of installation (expert, text, normal, specifying hdc=CDROM) 3.choose language of installation (english or turkish) 4.choose keyboard type (us or turq or turkish turq_latin5) 5.choose the installation location (Local CDROM or Hard Drive) Actual Results: intstallation program can not find RedHat CDROM in any of your CDROM direves. Please insert RedHat CD... Expected Results: it should continue installation properly Additional info: included in the attachment.
Created attachment 28381 [details] history of my bug with RedHat Support.
Please try this: Make a boot floppy with the boot.img file in the /images directory on the cdrom. If you have a linux system around already, put the cdrom and the floppy in the system and run: 'dd if=/mnt/cdrom/images/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k' On a Windows system, you can run the 'rawrite' command in the /dosutils directory on the cdrom. Rawrite will then prompt you for which file to use. Select the boot.img file in the /images directory. Once you've got the boot floppy, put it in the system and reboot. The install should start and then you will be given the option of doing either a Hard Drive install or a CDROM install. Put the Red Hat CD in the drive and select CDROM. Hopefully, the install will proceed without problems. I think the problem is this: For 7.1, we switched to 2.88MB boot images on the cdrom. This allows us to include more drivers for things like SCSI cards, RAID controllers, etc. in the first stage of the install. The problem is that a few cdrom drives (it's the motherboard's problem, actually), can't boot from a 2.88MB boot image. Booting off a floppy gets around that problem because the floppy is using a 1.44MB boot image. Then, the floppy hands off to the cdrom fo r the second stage install, and things work fine. Does this solve the problem?
hi, Things are getting strange I think. I have created the boot disk with the rawrite utility and booted from floopy, chose CDROM and the installation began. I have proceeded and made all package selections, configurations,... Then the package installation step has come. First the formatting of drives was being carried out but the program crashed. After a 15 minutes of no progress on the making ext2 file system propagation bar and seeing that the hdd led was not even blinking I did reset my computer. But afterwards I can not achive to pass through cdrom or hard drive installation option as before. I even again made a boot floppy with rawrite and tried the same procedure, but nothing changes. I have tried this method maybe for 10 ten times. thank you and hope to hear from you.
try booting with "linux ide=nodma" at the boot: prompt
unfortunately, it did not work. I have the same error. Also I wonder why I can not install from the har drive also.
hi, I think you need additional information. here's what I get after I boot from the floppy / text expert: /tmp/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol unregister cdrom_R010c2aac /tmp/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol cdrom_fops_R4eb9a092 /tmp/ide-cd.o: unresolved symbol cdrom_number_of_slots_Ree65f265 ... going to insmod cdromfs.o (path is null) going to insmod cdrom.o (path is null) error 2 reading header: cpio:Bad magic ...
It looks like the problem is related to the cd somehow. Considering that you've replaced the discs themselves, I'm wondering if you aren't seeing hardware problems. What is the make and model of the cdrom drive?
CREATIVE CD3220E SC980217
I don't know what to tell you. I have never seen these kind of errors before. Do other operating systems, such as Windows, work on this machine? I'm inclined to think that there are some hardware troubles here.
ok, if you like I can pass you my system summary from Windos 98 which I am using now. also I have used Windows NT4.0 and Red Hat 5.2 and Red Hat 6.2 on this machine. those errors were from virtual console.
ok, I am totally lost. just before I have installed my redhat 5.2, but just problem with the X server that i know, i had before, and solved before. that problem is due to my graphics card which is not in the default list and during custom installation of graphics card to match right one was so hard. than immediately i tried again 7.1 but same happened. then i installed my red hat 6.0, but i think those CDs are no more usefull i think, everything goes well untill the formatting partitions section, but then on it crashes. So what i see is old versions of redhat installers can find my CD. why this one CAN'T?
I'm sorry that you are having all these troubles trying to install 7.1. I have no idea what could be causing these problems. Are you interested in trying the latest public beta for the next version of Red Hat? I can't think of anything else to try...
hi, yes I'd like to try it.
This truly does look like hardware trouble. The 2.4 kernel used in Red Hat Linux 7.1 stresses the hardware more than previous releases have and will hit corner cases like this sometimes. If you would like to try the beta of our next release, you can download it from most mirrors of ftp.redhat.com or directly at ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/beta/roswell. If possible, could you try with a different CD-ROM drive or see if the results are any different with Roswell?
hi, I have already tried with a different CDROM drive. HP 8250i CDR/CRW drive. But I am sorry about trying with Roswell, since I have a 56K modem connection, it will take hours for me to download.
I see. Yes, that would take quite a long time to download. I don't really know what to recommend to you. So you saw the exact same problem with a different CDROM drive?
first i want say that we here in Turkey are very sorry and angry about the terrorist attack to USA. As a nation living very close with terrorism, we share your sorrow and anger. I hope the terrorists will be found in very near future. yes, i did so, my own cdrom is CREATIVE CDROM drive, and i tried with a HP 8250i again. thank you very much.
koraykv@yahoo.com, Thank you for your kind words. I think I will never understand the desire to target innocent people, no matter what country or religion they might belong to. To the people of the USA, the world is a different place than it was a week ago. Having said that, I still don't know what is causing 7.1 to not install on your system. I'm pretty much out of ideas... :(
Have you had any further luck with this problem?
unfortunately no, i couldn't, yesterday I have received RedHat 6.2 and I will try that one. after installing that one i will try to upgrade and see if it works or not.
Ok. Let me know how it goes.
Any more info here?
hi, excuse me about the long delay. I have installed 6.2 and it works very fine now. I have tried to install 7.1 again but it did not work again. Also I have made iso images of the two cd's with mkisofs and checked with md5sum. although it seems that iso images are ok, I could not achieve hard drive installation also. One more thing. I have replaced the vmlinuz file on the boot disk of 7.1 with that of 6.2 and the installation program could achieve to see the RedHat CD. I could proceed until package installation but during package installation somewhere in the middle the installation stops and kills all processes and reboots. this has been the same for several times that I again installed 6.2
I don't know what else to do. Upgrading from 6.2 to 7.1 has worked for me in all my tests. I really can't explain what's going on. I hate to close bugs as 'worksforme', but in this case I don't know what else to do...