Hi all!
I just got a pure new hardware (Opteron, Gigabyte board with nForce4 and built-in RAID). I am RAIDing 2 SATA II disks (mode 1, bootable array), but can not install Mandrake 10.
I get a splashscreen with F1 or Enter. Press Enter. Next thing I see is "CDROM not found".
Loaded a LiveCD of Lindows and found the CDROM under... SCSI devices with all zero values (port, etc)! I dont have any SCSI controller nor SCSI ROM.
The thing is that I installed Linux from these very CDs on this very ROM the last time.
Does anybody have an idea how to solve something like this?

r u sure the cd's r still good?

usually there is a 'media check' at boot time, use it if so.

i mean, if you got as far as a boot splash, it sounds like it is either your media (ie cd) or mandy is having problems finding your drive (which is weird since it 'found it' to splash the boot scr).

find out what the drive is actually called (at that point) and enter it at the boot screen (there should be speciall 'boot' instructions before the installer starts.

single cd drives are called various things like: /dev/hdc , /dev/cdrom , /dev/cdrom0 , /dev/cdrom1 ... so your single drive can be anyone of those (don't ask me why!)

i'm not sure how you would find out exactly which of these it is called.. but you can try opening up another console (alt f1 or alt f2-7 depending on which one is 'free') and type: mount .. this may tell you what your drive is being called by the sys.

good luck, lettuce know