On Thursday 31 May 2001 10:17 am, Ortmann, Chris (TIFPC) wrote:
> 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 have this happen occasionally with several different versions of
Mandrake CD's, cdr's and production CD's from either lsl.com or
cheapbytes. Seein as how I run a p3-450 overclocked to 600, when it
does happen, I just slow it down a little to 567 and then the CD's
always load the second stage ramdisk. It is usually a hardware
problem, most often either the cpu/cache/ram (oc'd L2 cache in my
case), the CD's, and/or the CDrom's ability to read them. Specially
with CDr's. AFAIK, CD-r's are a slightly different laser (wave length),
than production CD's and CDrom's.
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Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
