No CDROM device found upon installation attempt

Osiris22 · 01-10-2006, 02:08 AM

I just built a new PC and am attempting to install Mandrake10.1 for the first time.

PC is
Asus motherboard A8S-X
AMD athalon 64 X2
Raptor 74 gig Serial ATA with XP X64 installed
SATA 250 gig hard drive fresh
2 gig turbo memory
Lite on DVD-rw IDE
Pioneer DVD-RW IDE
Radeon 550 video card

I've got no floppy drives installed

I unplugged the Raptor hard drive and am attempting to install mandrake 10.1 on the other SATA hard drive

When I attemp to install an Error window pops up saying No CDROM device found.

they are on the same cable and jumper set to cable select.
IN the bios both drives are recognized and work proberly. Also they work fine when I'm running XP.

any advice is greatly appreciated.

thanks

Osiris

halvy · 01-10-2006, 11:41 AM

satas are supposedly giving everyone alot of headaches (in lin)..try the old hd and see what happens.

make sure the cd itself is not corrupt iso.

good luck.

stress_junkie · 01-10-2006, 05:28 PM

You might do well to use a 32 bit kernel. The performance may be comparable and you would not have to use 64 bit drivers. There seem to be a lot of posts here about problems with the 64 bit drivers.

???

Osiris22 · 01-10-2006, 09:06 PM

well,

I tried plugging in the dvd rom ide cable to the primary(hard drive) ide slot on the mobo. Then I tried each drive singally.

I've read a few other similar threads and I'm thinking either both of my dvdrw drives are not compatable with mandrake10.1 (unlikely) or maybe it's the interface of my motherboard that's causing the problem.

NO matter what I try it comes to the screen asking to hit F1 or Enter to install/upgrade. I hit enter and the error message pops up. NO CDROM device found.

I couldn't find anything in my bios that I thought would possibly help.

also I wonder why mandrake install routine reads the disk to get started then cannot locate it. hmmmmm.

any more help is appreciated.

Osiris

J.W. · 01-11-2006, 12:14 AM

I personally am not a fan of cable select, and would suggest making one the master and one the slave. It might not solve the problem but it's something I'd suggest trying. Good luck with it

stress_junkie · 01-11-2006, 06:12 AM

I enthusiastically agree with J.W. I never use cable select. I don't move hard drives around so much that using the drive jumpers would be a problem.

Osiris22 · 01-14-2006, 06:41 PM

My dvd-rw drives are set to cable select.

My hard drives are SATA and Serial ATA. So there is no jumper settings like in IDE devices.

Osiris