There are only two things that could cause this to happen. A faulty linux cd
or an unsurported cdrom. If its the disk then you will just have to get
another. If its the drive then there are a few ways arround such as
installing from a hard disk. I know those can be done but have never done
them myself.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lachman, Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 1:53 AM
Subject: [newbie] Mandrake Install Problem
> I own a Plextor PX-W1210TA internal CD-RW. When I boot off of the
Mandrake 7.2
> inst CD I
> successfully get the page with the penguin and two choices: F1 for more
options,
> Enter to continue. When I press I get the following error: "The CDROM
device
> does not seem to contain a Linux Mandrake CDROM." After pressing OK the
dialog,
> "Initializing CDROM..." appears, but never goes away.
>
> CTRL+ALT+F4 yields:
>
> <4>hda:PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CDROM drive
> <4>ide0@0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> <4>...autorunDONE
> <4>VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
> <4>hda: ATAPI32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048 Kb cache, DMA
> <4>uniform CD-ROM driver revision: 3.11
> <4>VFS: disc change detected on device ide0 (3,0)
> <4>warning: defective cdrom. Enabling "cruft" mount option.
> <4>interleaved files not (yet supported)
> <4>file unit size != 0 for ISO file (67584).
> <4>hda: status error: status = 0x58 {driveReady seekComplete dataRequest}
> <4>hda: drive not ready for command
> <4>hda: status time out: status - 0xd0 {busy}
> <4>hda: DMA disabled, drive not ready for command
>
> CTRL+ALT+F3 yields:
>
> Welcome to the Mandrake install (first stage, version 7.2 built 10/23/00)
> running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/fat.o
> running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/vfat.o
> PCI bridge probe: not found
> Intel PCIC probe not found.
> Databook TCIC-2 probe: not found
>
> running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/isofs.o
> running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/ide-probe.o
>
> insmod failed!
>
> running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/ide-probe-mod.o
>
> insmod failed!
>
> running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/cdrom.o
> running /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/ide-cd.o
> mounting hda on /temp/rhimage as type iso9660
> creating directory /temp/rhimage rc=0
> calling mount (/temp/hda, /temp/rhimage, iso9660, -1058209791, (nil))
> removing device file /temp/hda
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
>
> Larry
>
>
