10.1 MDK needs driver & options to install

Jan Tanjo · 05-17-2006, 05:54 PM

Hi

Trying to install 10.1 and install says that there is no CD ROM, which is true to a certian extent, it's a DVD. There's no floppy so now I'm faced with choosing a driver to install. It's a Compaq PIII dual Xeon and the DVD is an IDE LG DVD drive.

Which driver should I choose? (There seems to be about 30 of them on the list.) and what options are needed once I choose the driver?

Thank you for your help.

aus9 · 05-19-2006, 08:27 AM

ummm silly question I know but have you got your bios to allow boot from optical drive BEFORE any hard drive?

I used to have a LD dvd/cd burner and installed Mandriva 2006 no problems so I am reluctant for you to proceed until we look at easier options first pls

Jan Tanjo · 05-19-2006, 06:52 PM

Hi aus9

Yes, I usually set optical drives to be looked at first and just leave it there. I'm sure it's just a quark with this system, I also have 10.0 on CD and just to see what would happen, tried installing with the same results, it says that there is no optical drive and ask which driver to use. I've looked through the BIOS but the options are so sparse that there is really nothing that I could change that is obvious.

aus9 · 05-21-2006, 01:51 AM

ok still want to avoid drivers....are you prepared to change your atapi jumpers....move the dvd to master jumper 1 and if you have no spare cables left put your slowest smallest less frequent hard drive to jumper slave on same cable and reboot to see if any joy

forgive me if you aleady tried this

Jan Tanjo · 05-21-2006, 11:50 AM

Hi aus9

Tried a few more BIOS changes, flipping primary/secondary, tried "linux apci=off" with no change.

Jan Tanjo · 05-21-2006, 02:20 PM

Just thought I should that the BIOS says that there is 2 IDE channels but I only see one plug on the main board, so whether you can put 4 devices on one plug (unlikely) or it's just outdated BIOS.

Also I tried the "linux hdc=cdrom" and "linux hdd=cdrom" when drives matched that command, still no success.

aus9 · 05-22-2006, 08:13 AM

well I am running out of non-driver ideas.

most motherboards have 2 ide controllers hence you have 2 wide ribbons going away and if 2 atapi devices such as 2 ide drives or 1 drive 1 optical ....that is why you need master and slaves so the computer knows what device is talking.

so you changed the drives jumpers and the wide ribbon had both devices.

BTW....your LG should be a ATAPI and not an IDE.

see if your device is here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showcat.php/cat/476

or go to Mandrivaś HCL

Jan Tanjo · 05-22-2006, 07:29 PM

OK, I think I know what's happening. How do I prevent install from looking to the built in SCSI channels for a CDROM drive and stick to looking at the ATAPI (IDE) drive?

aus9 · 05-23-2006, 08:27 AM

actually thats not it either.....I have an Atapi dvd burner but in /var/log/dmesg is this

hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(66) but

to be used a a burner it (the kernel) needs to see it as a scsi.

And altho slightly out of date here is a doc that explains better than I
http://www.linuxdocs.org/sln/cdburnsetup/