Re: 6.1 install

[<karlp ourldsfamily com>]

My CDROM drives are always recognized IF the CMOS setup finds them. Go
into setup and see if a discovery process exists to find hard drives. If
it does, run it and see what happens when it gets to the CDROM drive
location. If it can't find anything, check the jumpers on the CDROM drive.
They are probably not set correctly. If that still doesn't work, do what
I've had to do sometimes: Put the CDROM drive on the same cable as the
primary IDE hard disk and then check it again. Once CMOS recognizes it,
you are set. Some CDROM drives don't like being secondary master. But they
work find as either primary slave or secondary slave.

If CMOS recognizes, it, you should be able to set it as a valid boot
device.  Then you won't have to boot off a floppy to install 6.1. If it
can't be set as a boot device, but CMOS recognizes it, it will work dandy
for the install from floppy/CDROM disk.

Good luck,

Karl L. Pearson
Senior Consulting Systems Analyst
Senior Consulting Database Analyst
karlp ourldsfamily com

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Andy wrote:

Trying to install Redhat 6.1 on Celeron 400Mhz, 64MB RAM, 6GB hard drive.
At the boot prompt I type: linux hdc=cdrom
as my CDROM is the second IDE controller master so I understand that I need to tell Linux
where the CDROM is located?

It still does not work.

I then created a 1GB FAT 16 partition and tried to copy
from the CDROM to that partition to boot from the hard drive.
It does not recognize the CDROM.

Lost, clueless, and trying to enter the Linux world with no success.

Please Help!