Hi All

I have same problem but little bit different, my problem was:

I tried to install FC3 , Mandrake 10, Slackware 10 and Unix solaris 10 Intel platform on PCs inside Lab (about 15 PCs, all of them IBM P4 NetVist) ,,,,I received very strange message:

“CD could not be found----------------“ ,,,this is brief description about message,,,,,All PCs are IBM NetVista P4 black color.

For FC2 the message was:

“The Fedora Core CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Fedora Core CD and press ok to retry”

I was able to use the same CDs in the other lab (about 15 PCs, all of them IBM P4 NetVista,,but slightly difference model from first one),,,That means there is no problem with CDs, am I right? By The way I did download all ISO from internet.

I borrowed FC2 from my friend and he installed on his Desktop without any problem, and when I tried to use it, I received same message !!!!!!!!!!

I borrowed Red Hat 9 from other friend (He also downloaded from internet),,,it worked fine without any complain!!!!!!!!!!.

Any clue about this strange case

Same problem on Compaq Deskpro, 300 MHz 96 Mb machine running unknown cdrom.

I noticed no one has answered this found this solution on another form and it worked for me, (I was experiencing the same problem with an IBM net-vista)

Found this on Bugzilla site for Fedora Core 2. Boot up to Fedora Core
2 prompt and do:

linux ide=nodma<ENTER>

You boot into the normal check cd page and everything then just works.

Hope that helps

Thanks very much holash,

Could you please send me the link for what you mentioned, and could you please look at this:



http://linux.derkeiler.com/Newsgroup...4-10/0856.html

Installing on an old Dell, and had the same problem - thanks, the "ide=nodma" did the trick!

- rob

Ok... FC3 on an old PIII with a creative 3230e cdrom.... I had the same problem recognizing the cdrom. ide=nodma worked... until... while installing, the cdrom sounds like it spins too fast and the cd takes flight and falls back to the tray... then, of course, the installer says it can't find some file... and this happens every 5 minutes or so.
dual boot into win98 and the cdrom works just fine. in the device manager, the "DMA" box is unchecked. - confirms the nodma setting.

are there any more boot options for the cdrom that might fix this?
B

Found a solution: changed my cdrom drive. Put in a shiny new LG super multi
DVD+ReWritable, and the problem was resolved.
The Linux 2.6 kernel is not compatible with some old hardware, imho.

Hope this helps.