I had 8.1 on my system, downloaded the 9.1 and went to install, did the
format of partition and stuff, and then tried to install with cd and
couldn't detect the cdrom after it booted up initially... what gives?\

Jim wrote:

>I had 8.1 on my system, downloaded the 9.1 and went to install, did the
>format of partition and stuff, and then tried to install with cd and
>couldn't detect the cdrom after it booted up initially... what gives?
>
May be that you have a non-ide cdrom. If this is the case, you have to
select a
different kernel to boot with. If the cdrom is a really old proprietary
or it is a scsi it is
better that you specify exactly the device (e.g. for scsi /dev/scd0)
Bye
Carlo

baffa@erwhon.net wrote:
>
>
> Jim wrote:
>
>> I had 8.1 on my system, downloaded the 9.1 and went to install, did the
>> format of partition and stuff, and then tried to install with cd and
>> couldn't detect the cdrom after it booted up initially... what gives?
>>
> May be that you have a non-ide cdrom. If this is the case, you have to
> select a
> different kernel to boot with. If the cdrom is a really old proprietary
> or it is a scsi it is
> better that you specify exactly the device (e.g. for scsi /dev/scd0)
> Bye
> Carlo
>

no, thanks but no, I have an ide, i'm familiar with this, what I don't
understand is that it will boot off the install cd and alloow me to
fdisk and stuff, but when it's choosing source, it can't find the ide
cdrom...... 8.1 no problem, but wanted to upgrade to 9.1 because my
sound won't work in 8.1.....

Jim wrote:

> I had 8.1 on my system, downloaded the 9.1 and went to install, did
> the format of partition and stuff, and then tried to install with cd
> and couldn't detect the cdrom after it booted up initially... what
> gives?\

I had this problem on a laptop once... had to use "hdc=ide-scsi" while
booting... I thought it was odd at the time, since it wasn't even a
cd-burner... but it worked and i was happy and that was it.

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-alex49201

alex49201 wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>
>
>>I had 8.1 on my system, downloaded the 9.1 and went to install, did
>>the format of partition and stuff, and then tried to install with cd
>>and couldn't detect the cdrom after it booted up initially... what
>>gives?\
>
>
> I had this problem on a laptop once... had to use "hdc=ide-scsi" while
> booting... I thought it was odd at the time, since it wasn't even a
> cd-burner... but it worked and i was happy and that was it.
>
ok, so if I was to do that, my command would be hdc=ide-ide ?

alex49201 wrote:

> Jim wrote:
>
>
>>I had 8.1 on my system, downloaded the 9.1 and went to install, did
>>the format of partition and stuff, and then tried to install with cd
>>and couldn't detect the cdrom after it booted up initially... what
>>gives?\
>
>
> I had this problem on a laptop once... had to use "hdc=ide-scsi" while
> booting... I thought it was odd at the time, since it wasn't even a
> cd-burner... but it worked and i was happy and that was it.
>
I tried that command just now and same result, couldn't detect cdrom,
weird it's a 24x

Jim wrote:

>>
>> I had this problem on a laptop once... had to use "hdc=ide-scsi" while
>> booting... I thought it was odd at the time, since it wasn't even a
>> cd-burner... but it worked and i was happy and that was it.
>>
> ok, so if I was to do that, my command would be hdc=ide-ide ?

No, still ide-scsi...you may need to use scsi emulation.

skippy steve wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>
>
>>>I had this problem on a laptop once... had to use "hdc=ide-scsi" while
>>>booting... I thought it was odd at the time, since it wasn't even a
>>>cd-burner... but it worked and i was happy and that was it.
>>>
>>
>>ok, so if I was to do that, my command would be hdc=ide-ide ?
>
>
> No, still ide-scsi...you may need to use scsi emulation.
>
well I tried it but didn't work....

Jim wrote:

> I had 8.1 on my system, downloaded the 9.1 and went to install, did the
> format of partition and stuff, and then tried to install with cd and
> couldn't detect the cdrom after it booted up initially... what gives?\
>

1st, did you consider upgrading from 8.1 to 9.1 ? This is assuming you
have the hard drive space, but if you had copied the 9.1 packages to
your hard drive, then followed the instuctions in UPGRADE.txt, you
probably would have avoided all of this...

2nd, it might be helpful if you included a little info about your
hardware...Like which bus the cdrom is on. Is it set as master or slave
? Anything unusual at all in your hardware config ?

--
- Matt -

Jim wrote:

> alex49201 wrote:
>> Jim wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I had 8.1 on my system, downloaded the 9.1 and went to install, did
>>>the format of partition and stuff, and then tried to install with cd
>>>and couldn't detect the cdrom after it booted up initially... what
>>>gives?\
>>
>>
>> I had this problem on a laptop once... had to use "hdc=ide-scsi"
>> while booting... I thought it was odd at the time, since it wasn't
>> even a cd-burner... but it worked and i was happy and that was it.
>>
> ok, so if I was to do that, my command would be hdc=ide-ide ?

It's not a standard console-command, you must pass the command
"hdc=ide-scsi" to the kernel, at boot. To do this, wait untill you get
the lilo boot prompt (boot and type "linux hdc=ide-scsi" then press
enter, this causes the cd-rom to be emulated as a scsi device..
normally this is only neccessary with cdrw's, but i've had to do it
with regular cd-rom's too.

If this works your cd-rom will now be /dev/sr0 (or similar) as if it was
a scsi cdrom, if you can access it, and it works and everything is
good, then you will want to permanently add "hdc=ide-scsi" to your
lilo.conf file so that you won't have to type it at every boot.

To do this, open your lilo.conf file (/etc/lilo.conf) and add the
following line,
#------
append = "hdc=ide-scsi"
#------
anywhere in between the "image =" line, and the "read-only" line. After
you've edited and saved the file, run "lilo" at a command line and that
will read your new lilo.conf, and write it to your MBR (or where ever
you've previously configured lilo to install to). After you reboot,
without having to type anything, lilo will always automatically pass
the command to the kernel during boot.

PS. All references to "hdc" assume that is the device for your cdrom
(Secondary Master) if your cdrom is installed in your computer as the
Secondary Slave, you would substitute "hdd", etc.. etc..

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-alex49201