really weired problem...installation media not found

[alok garg]

well i posted this problem on some other forums also and i came to
conclusion that installation program is not recognising cdrom....than i
tried to install mandrake 10 on these system and same error...cds will
boot but after that no cd detected... so i m thinking it is a kernel 2.6
problem because before fc2 redhat 7.3 was installed on them
successfully... is this is a bug..what should i do about it... anyway i
did a nfs install and system installed fine....

On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 06:44, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> alok garg wrote:
> > hi,
> > i downloaded and burned the 4 cds of FC2 .....yesterday i also completed
> > a successful installation on a dell poweredge 2600 using these
> > cds....mediacheck of these cds is also ok.....today i tried to install
> > another ibm netvista box with intel 845 chipset....the cds booted fine
> > ....but after language and keyboard selection it asks for location of
> > installation media giving following options
> > 
> > local cd-rom
> > hard drive
> > nfs
> > ftp
> > http
> > 
> > which is really weired and i have never encountered this dialog
> > before....i tried to select local cd rom but then it gives error that no
> > installation medium found....can someone help me in this
> > matter.....thanks in advance...
> 
> It basically means that the installation program is unable to see your 
> cdrom drive.  It was able to boot from it (probably due to the system 
> BIOS support), but for some reason or other, once the Linux started 
> running the installation program, that version of Linux is unable to 
> find it.  I'd change to an alternate console and check out any error 
> (and other) messages that might be present in VC 3 and VC 4....
> 
> (VC 1 runs the text install, VC 2 should have a shell prompt, VC 3 
> contains output from what's happened so far, and VC 4 contains any error 
> messages (syslog messages?))  If you got into the graphical install, 
> that would be running in VC7.
> 
> -- 
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome at rcn.com
> cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings at kjc386.framingham.ma.us
>