Hi! Mike Fetherston (twist@soonet.ca): > I've been having troubles installing debian on my system. If I run > boot.bat from \boot it starts the installation just fine, but then when > it reboots for the first time to install the packages using dselect it > can't find my cdrom. My cdrom is an LG Electronics/Goldstar 8160B 16X > IDE on the secondary IDE channel as master and it is all alone on the > cable. If I create boot diskettes using resc1440.bin, I can use my > cd-rom. From chatting on #debian on irc.debian.org it seems to be a > kernel problem. Is there any way of fixing this so that when i boot > >from my hard drive i can gain access to my cd-rom to complete the > installation? > > By loooking at /var/log/messages it seems that boot isn't finding my > secondary pci ide channel. what kind of motherboard / chipset / IDE-controller do you have / does linux show in in /var/log/messages? which kernel are you running? the one from the rescue disc? Or did you somehow install another kernel (-package)? sis you try booting with the rescue disc and specifying the root-fs at the prompt like this: rescue root=/dev/<YourRootPartition> Rainer -- KeyID=58341901 fingerprint=A5 57 04 B3 69 88 A1 FB 78 1D B5 64 E0 BF 72 EB
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