From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: fresh install on HP/Compaq ML350 G3 computer successfully boots from the IDE CD-ROM but the installer cannot see that the RedHat Linux 9 CD is inserted. On VC #4: Unable to identify CD-ROM format. I've verified that the drive is jumpered as Master. I've also tried booting with "ide=nodma". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.see above 2. 3. Additional info:
Have you tested the CD media?
A 'linux mediacheck' on the target machine results in the same error: that it cannot "see" the CD. I don't have another machine on which I can run the mediacheck, at the moment. However, I can tell you that this media was used to install another machine successfully. Also, I was able to mount the 3 install CDs and copy their contents to another box, so that I could complete the installation of the ML350 box via NFS. Finally, the RedHat Linux 8.0 install works on the target machine.
This sounds like either a kernel or hardware issue. May be related to bug 92162.
I have also been experiencing this problem with a new machine. The drive in question is a SONY CDU5221 in my case. I am able to install 7.2 on the machine, but 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 can't see the CDROM. I suspect the problem lies in the upgrade in the ide-cdrom driver version from 4.59 to 4.59-ac1. After installing RedHat 7.2 on the new machine, I can mount and read the installation disks in the CDROM drive for each uninstallable versions. If, during the install of 7.3, 8.0 or 9.0, I attempt to set hdc=cdrom, the installer crashes with a kernel panic.
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