I'm trying to install slackware 12 on a new box with an intel DQ965GF motherboard, Seagate 250gig SATA drive and LiteOn DVD/cdrom. When I began the install, the kernal from the cdrom loaded and allowed me to fdisk the drive. Then when I was in the setup program, the program was unable to find the DVD/cdrom and set the cdrom as the source device even thought it had read the cdrom just seconds before. I went through the entire list of possible cdroms in the set up program with no success.

Is this problem caused by the kernel not having a driver compatible with the LiteOn DVD/cdrom or can this be an intel motherboard problem?

Thanks for any ideas,
Cary

is the cdrom SATA or PATA?

Have you tried booting the 'huge.s' kernel instead of the default hugesmp.s ? It may not make a difference, but sometimes it does.

according to the motherboard diagram, the cdrom connection is labeled IDE. The hard drive is SATA. I did try to load the huge.s kernel but that also failed to add the cdrom as a source. I wonder if intel changed the bios in these new motherboards.

Cary

Have you checked the BIOS settings, maybe there's something wrong there.

Yes, I changed the bios settings for the drive to legacy ide but still no joy. I did not see anything else in the bios that would apply.

Well, have you tried any live CDs like knoppix, does it work on there ? If it does, then go on there and run 'lspci' and post the output, the IDE controller should be listed. Then if it is, run 'lsmod' and post the output so you know which module would be the one it needs.

Just a hunch (and I might be way off), are you using the "Install from Slackware CD or DVD" option or "Install from a pre-mounted directory"?

If you're installing from a pre-mounted directory, the CD/DVD can't be mounted under /mnt. That's where setup mounts the partitions to install to.

I too have experienced the same problem couple of times... I do this, i always make it a point to first select the target and then the source while
installing (i.e., after you have issued the 'setup' command). this way it has always worked for me although this might not be a logical solution....

Acutally i had the exact same problem, the way i had to solve my problem was to update to slackware-current, as my ide controller is made by Marvell and is the only ide device on my motherboard(that being my DVD-ROM), once i had upgraded, it worked fine and still does.

Update to slackware-current? Can you explain further?

Slackware -current is the development version between stable release cycles.
Since Slackware-12.1 will be released soon, you might rather wait for it. If
not, post back and there are several ways to help you.

basically i downloaded the current kernel, and ran upgradepkg <kernel>.tgz

You need the modules, also -> a/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.24.4_smp-i686-2.tgz

You may have noticed that slackware-current updated it's kernel to 2.6.24.5 this morning...
Also a word of advise. Never upgrade to slackware-current partially (e.g. by only upgrading the kernel, or a specific app). It will break your system in subtle ways.

You should upgrade all the way to slackware-current if you want to run that.

Eric