Bootloader causes CD ROM to stop working
 

Haven't used Linux in about 4 months because I got fed up trying to solve this problem (and i was on holiday and had no computer.)

I can install from a live cd but when I boot into Linux i get a message that the device cannot be found.

If i dual boot with windows (regardless of version) the CD ROM also disappears. Its down to LILO and GRUB.

I heard that its down to ACPI Settings and i have fiddled around with them to try and fix it but its no use. I cannot work this one out.


Experimenting with Mint Linux which is basically ubuntu. Does it will all distros from Portage, DEB and RPM based distros.

By the way i'm usung a Laptop ROCK CTX PRo,

2 GHz Core 2 Duo
2GB Ram
160 5400rpm SATA HDD
Geforce Go 7950 GTX (a pain to set up)


Can anyone help, Thanks

I just had a similar problem. I fixed it by specifically setting the jumper on the CD drive. I had two, one on secondary master and one on secondary slave. I had been using them with the jumpers set to cable select, but for some reason it started flaking out. So I tried setting the jumpers to master on the master and slave on the slave, and it worked great. Hopefully it'll work for you too. :D

There are no Jumpers on the drive, its just a standard laptop drive. I know that its definitely down to the bootloader.

Are there any GRUB or LILO settings which could effect this?