Im trying a fresh install of RH 8.0 and it detects my DVD-ROM drive just fine when it first starts out probing the hardware ( I see it detects it on /dev/hdc.) When it gets to the Installation Method screen and I select "Local CDROM", it gives me an error that "The Red Hat Linux CD was not found in any of your CDROM drives. Please insert the Red Hat Linux CD and press OK to retry." And during that I cannot eject the CD from the DVD-ROM. Even though it detects it fine, I have tried passing parameters during setup (linux hdc=cdrom , or however it goes and some other parameters the install guide recommends). I even swapped DVD-ROMs from another system and the same thing happens, so it's not the DVD-ROM. Maybe the ISO image was bad. As I'm writing this I'm re-downloading the ISO for CD1. I HOPE this will fix it. Thoughts?

there is a media check feature on the first cd to test them

You mean "linux mediacheck"?

That does the exact same thing as typing [enter] at the setup prompt......It still stops at "The Red Hat CD was not found....." It doesn't get past that.

oh, ok

Have you got another computer you can check them on

Just a Windows 2000 machine. Anyway I can check the CD on that?

If the cd's are showing good with media check, you could try making the driver disk for block devices
If you still can't get it then you could make the 2000 box an http or ftp server and do the net install using the netboot floppy


look in the images folder on the first cd. There is the drvblock.img and the bootnet.img

You check the volume label first and there is a media check feature in the cd..then later on check for the erros..

Had same problem and trying to pass parms to boot or installing block driver did not help. I knew install had worked on same computer before. The only change on system was new CDRW, a Verbatim. I removed power to this drive, which was the master on second IDE channel and ran RH 8.0 CD from another CD, slave drive on second IDE channel, and install worked. So problem was this new CDRW drive.

ive had the same problem too, im using a Matshita CD rom, but ive tried on my compaq too, neither are CDR/RW, but linux recognizes both as a Cd/DVD drive. ive tried passing options to the Kernel, but the only one that actually changes anything is linux expert, and that asks for a driver disk, which i dont have, cause Matshita doesnt support Linux.

i downloaded the ISO's and burnt them to the CD's, the cd burner program recognized that they were ISO's and burnt them as so.

whats weird is that it boots, then doesnt find the CD in the drive.

anybody that had this problem fix it? or know how to fix it??

Scott McNeely

I have a Matsushita (Matshita is the device ID string) and it's supported in Linux. You must tell the kernel that it uses scsi emulation like so:

So if you use lilo:

root=/dev/hda2 hdb=ide-scsi

and if you use grub:

root (hd0,1) hdb=ide-scsi

Actually I'm not completely sure abou the lilo entry but it will be very similar.

Q*Bert

if you cant tell, im really new to linux, wich will work from the boot prompt?

Scott McNeely

i tried all the different combos i could last night, all got me to the same end, cant find the CD in the drive.

i hit alt F3 and it came up with a screen that showed a list of things, all were somethig to the effect of trying to mount hdc, my cd rom, and the other lines reading got url (null)

i have the CR 584, this model doesnt use the weird proprietary emulator, it shold work just plugged into the normal IDE (which its plugged into right now)

Scott McNeely

if it's possible for you to use net install you could install it and then fix the problem.

ill look around for instructions to do that, but the only other operating computer i have has a CDRW drive, and ive heard that RH8 doesnt like to install from them...

Scott McNeely

if you have windows or another linux machine you can setup as a web server then just have the web server setup to share the cd, it will work fine that way, as long as the server can access the cd.

for windows look into using pws (personal web server) you just need to give an ip address on your network or use dhcp if you have it. When the network card is detected by setup it will ask for an ip address. give it an ip, then for the name of the server you can use the ip address of the server. For the name use the web root name of the cdrom. ( cdrom would be a good one )