[plug] Trying to install Red hat 6.2 on a new box

[Alan Graham]

And struggling.  I built a Duron 850 box at the weekend, and I can't get RH
loaded on it.  It refuses to boot from the cd, so I cut a boot disk.  It
boots from that but then tells me that there is no RH cd in the drive. 
Alt-f3 shows 'trying to mount device hdc'.  Alt-f4 shows

<6> cdrom: open failed
<7> VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)

If I eject the cd and try to reread, it waits for about 1 minute, then
shows the same errors again.

The machine has a 40gb HDD as primary IDE master (ATA-100) and the cdrom as
secondary master (ATA-33).  I've tried a different cd drive, same results. 
I've tried a cd rom as primary slave, same result, but then on a warm boot
it actually booted from the cd.  The boot failed while loading vmlinuz tho'

I've also tried RH 7.0 and 7.1 cd's with similar results.  However, win98
SE booted ok and took me into the Win98 startup menu.  It's ok tho', I
cancelled that before it could write anything to the HDD :-)

I'm thinking that there's either something in the bios, maybe a delay, 'cos
it almost worked an a warm boot over the ATA-100 channel, or maybe a cable
problem in the second IDE cable that I'm using to the cd-rom.  I don't have
a spare to hand, so I can't check that at the mo'.

Anything else anyone can think of?  I was hoping that it was a hardware
fault on the new mobo ('cos that's someone else's problem), but that won't
fly since 98 boots ok.  ANY suggestions gratefully received.

Thanks

Alan Graham