I have installed mandrake 5.3 on a computer (dual PII 333mhz, 192MB Ram, 36x ATAPI CD-Rom (generic) IDE hard drives). I decided to upgrade to 6.0, so I got a (non CDR) CD from Gator Online. After wipeing my old install,( HD is un-partitioned) I put in the new CD, booted from it, and started the install. When I got to the "from local CD-Rom" part, it said "Initalizing CD-Rom..." and the small grey box left, leaving only a blue screen, the HD light stayed on (5 min) and nothing happened. I decided it locked up, and rebooted and tried a few more times with the same results. Background info that may help: After I installed 5.3 with no problems, I re-compiled the kernel (to enable SMP support for the dual CPU's) and when doing so I (just for the heck of it) enabled DMA support for the CD-Rom drives. After I did this, both CPU's worked, but I would lock the computer up whenever I attempted to mount a CD-Rom. I went back in and again re-compiled the kernel, setting the DMA for CD-Rom's back to the default value, and it had worked correctly ever since. My idea is that possibly the boot kernel on the CD-Rom has this option enabled (although in the kernel code it is disabled by default) which is causing my problems. I have gone into the BIOS on my computer and set the CD-Rom drive into PIO mode 1 with no 32 Bit access, which keeps it from saying "DMA" on the CD-Rom line in the boot of sequence, but does not help, the computer still locks up when I attempt to access the CD-Rom. I no longer have my 5.3 CD-Rom, and I wiped my 5.3 install before I started, so all I have to work with is the 6.0 CD. Any suggestions? Options I can send to the kernel? Thanks for any help, Jay Summet
