I have a similar (perhaps identical) problem with the 8.04 beta alternate i386 iso installing to an ASUS P5E board with an intel e3110 (xeon) dual-core CPU, 8G of DDR2 ram, 2 SATA hard drives and 1 Sony DVD- RW IDE (PATA) drive. BIOS setup was initially AHCI but I also tried the available IDE/Enhanced and IDE/Compatible options to no avail. Still get "No common CD-ROM Drive Detected." I also bumped the CD boot timeout from 15s to 30s in the BIOS without any effect (not surprising, since it boots from the ISO disk just fine).
This is an intel X38/ICH9R based board. There is also an eSATA controller, but I am not using it. I have previously installed on this machine from the 7.10 alternate amd64 iso and I am now installing from the 7.10 alternate i386 iso (and am past the cdrom detect stage), so this appears to be a problem specific to the 8.04 beta iso. I have not tried the 8.04 beta AMD64 iso, nor any "standard" (non-alternate) iso, nor any server iso. Problems like this were discussed extensively back in 2005, eg Debian bug 342359 and seemed to be attributed to a problem in ata_piix. Since the 7.10 ISO works, I am now assuming that is not the current issue here, but maybe I am wrong and it has re-appeared. -- cdrom-detect fails for HP DL145 in hardy beta https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/210200 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
