From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: When installing on a Compaq Presario ML350 with SCSI HDDs and a single IDE CDROM, the installer can't recognise the installation CDROM in the ide CDROM drive. Messages saying "unable to identify cdrom format" appear on one of the virtual consoles. I have tried appending nousb, hda=ide-scsi, ide=nodma, and even noprobe but all to no avail. Disabling USB in the BIOS also did not help. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert Disk 1 2. Power on 3. Choose language, keyboard & then installation media Actual Results: Unable to locate installation media Expected Results: Installation should have proceeded Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87742 ***
Mistakenly marked as duplicate.
This sounds like either a kernel or hardware issue. May be related to bug 96942.
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