Mandrake install MURDERED my CDROM!
 

When installing Mandrake onto another PC, I encountered a major problem...

After partition changes, it told me to reboot, so I did. Now my CDROM is dead. It won't open or close manually. The PC boots into nothingness.

Why is my CD-ROM completely dead?

Check this link http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/lgerrata.php3 you may have an LG CDROM

Okay; I'll try that, but my CD-ROM is dead as a door-nail, it won't even open or close on the BIOS startup or BIOS setup menus!

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I don't think I have that type of CD-ROM.

Mandrake only kills LG drives. They are cheap. Get a new and better drive. Use a paperclip to open the drive door manually (that little hole in the front panel.

It was in the install program. It only stopped working when I rebooted after partitioning. Now the CD-ROM will not work anywhere.

I already opened the drive prior to your post.

I do not believe it is an LG drive.

well then, it just sounds like your drive died then...
get a new one

hm... LG CD-ROMs have an "LG" thingie in the front. Maybe you should look for it?

It doesn't have any "LG" on it or on the BIOS whatsoever.

I'm starting to think it's a hardware-related issue; perhaps the CD-ROM just died of old age? :)

My problem is identical to this one , it that's any help.

Not all LG drives are labelled as such - many shipped with Compaq or Dell systems. That was my own situation; I didn't think to check the drive in my older Dell and I killed it with Mdk9.2. At that point it wouldn't even boot far enough to get into BIOS. I threw out the drive and put in another drive I had lying around.

Okay, thanks. I'll probably end up doing that.

If you're running Mandrake, use harddrake & see if it detects your drive or not. If not, then manually open the drive and insert a knoppix disk and boot from there. Look at the lines in /etc/fstab in knoppix & copy them out of the ramdisk to the fstab of your mandrake partition. Then reboot and see.

I lost a CD Rom as well. I could not install Mandrake 9.2 because I kept getting errors. Then my CD rom drive burn out.

I replaced the CDROM and installed Windows 98 on it. :-D