CDROM Booting Problems

[Allen Taylor]

On Thu, Nov 04, 2004 at 10:23:23AM -0500, Adam Raymond wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004 10:16:27 -0500, Joseph Kubik <josephkubik-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > What BIOS version do you have?
> > What type of cdrom do you have? SCSI or IDE what brand / model?
> > There is always some hardware that the installer's kernel does not know about.
> > 
> > Also, exactly how far does the install go before failing to find the
> > cd, when using the floppy?
> > -Joseph-
> 
> My CD ROM is IDE, I'm not at home right now but i think the brand is "create". 
> 
> In the install I got to the point were it asked me to choose were I
> would like to install from. I choose CD ROM, and then for it to auto
> detect my CD ROM. Thats when it said it couldn't detect my CD ROM.

On several PII machines I've worked with, the CDROM unit would read
pre-pressed CDs (such as Windows 98 or 2000 installs) fine but would not
read a burned CD-R. My only ways around the problem were to either
install a newer CDROM drive or use an NFS install from a server. 

These days I don't bother burning install CD's - I do all my slack-10
installs via NFS (all meaning 4 so far in my case).

Good Luck

Allen
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