"Ortmann, Chris (TIFPC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I realize this should probably go on the newbie list, but I'm already on
> this list.
>
> ...
> The install (whether I use the standard, text, or even expert mode) will
> never error out, but rather hangs up at the same spot each time. It'll
> create the secondary ramdisk, (reading it off the CD just fine) but when it
> gets to the "Initliazing CDROM..." message the install hangs. My guess is
> it's having truoble mounting the CDrom drive for some reason. I've
> considered the possibility that the drive may have problems with burnt CD's,
> and also realize that some older hardware has trouble booting from CD's.
> The thing is though, that it will boot just fine. It just hangs at that
> part of the install. Anyone ever experience this before?
I had something sorta like that happen just last night.
I assume you are booting from the cdrom drive. I was booting from floppy.
What happened to me was that somehow I'd get LM7.2 install to think that it
was ok to go ahead and initialze the cdrom drive before it was really working.
(I have a scsi cdrom drive).
I'm still stuck on that myself - and this on a machine that used to work
perfectly.... I turned it off (after only 75 days uptime) to try to put
a 40 gig drive in it... Now its dead, Jim... The 40 gig drive is NOT
detected no matter what I try (but that same drive works fine in the 2
IBM PC300GL machines I've got - I'm 'hoping' that I 'just' need a firmware
upgrade on my motherboard - since it detects my 10 gig drive as 8gig
I'm betting that my bios won't see 40....)
I'm planning to get an IDE cdrom drive and see if I can get my system
back (recover mode is your friend!) that way. (Lilo from the hard drive
dies at LIL- since I took off (and repartitioned!) a drive that I'd not
realized that lilo knew about. Sometimes I consider LILO's geometry
checking to be a bug! It would be much nicer if it would ONLY fail
if you tried to load an image where the geometry has changed, rather than
refusing to load ANY image if ANY geometry has changed! Oh, well, I'll
quit whining and blathering now ;-)
rc
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