Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87784
Can boot from CD, but cant install from CD
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:52:41 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: I have already solved this for my part, but thought you wanted to know about this issue. BIOS detects CDROM just fine. After booting from RHL9 CD1 I can not choose to install from CD. To work around this problem I installed from harddrive. The problem resurfaces after installation because no CDROM drive is detected. dmesg shows nothing. I tried to modprobe ide-cd without any luck. The problem was that on the same IDE channel I had an IDE Iomega Zip, without power connected to it but the IDE cable plugged in. The CDROM was physically connected after the Zip on the cable. Though CD is IDE master (hdc) and Zip is IDE slave (hdd). After connecting power to the Zip both devices detects fine and is properly installed in RHL9. The odd part is that BIOS detects the drive and I can boot from the CDROM, but RHL9 cant use it. As I said, this is not a problem for me anymore, but you might want to know about it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot 2. Try to access CDROM Actual Results: RHL9 cant use the CDROM, though detected fine by BIOS Additional info: This is a Dell system. Go to https://support.dell.com/register.aspx and choose "Dimension XPS R___" from the dropdown list. I have a Pentium II 350MHz CPU (XPS R350 model).
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