[plug] Mandrake 10.0

[Denis Brown]

Hello, Ian.

On Fri, 28 May 2004, Ian Sherriffs wrote:

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there.   I have tried to boot from Disk 1 and Disc 2, but nothing
happens, and eventually Windows starts up again.  So I made the special
Mandrake boot floppy, and this works, but when it finishes I get a screen
that says 'Error:    No CDROM device found' .  When I hit OK (ENTER) it
reads 'Please Insert the Additional Drivers floppy'.   Hit OK again, and
get a list of things to look for, but again get 'No CDROM device found'.
>
I see that Cameron has suggested things to try and hopefully those tips
will get you under way.   Just in case not...  I had similar problems with
a recent Gentoo installation.   The trick turned out to be an option at
boot time, for the installation CD.   My critical boot option was
"ide=nodma" which made the hardware behave correctly.   Of course you may
have different boot options.   In the Gentoo case it was "gentoo
ide=nodma" typed in response to the boot: prompt (but without the ""
marks).   Like Gentoo, Debian offered a variety of kernels (eg compact,
vanilla) plus boot-time options.

Question... do you get a "boot:" prompt from the installation CD?   If so,
is there any additional text inviting you to press, for example, F1 for a
help or options menu, or F2, F3, etc for additional options?   Sometimes
(Gentoo & Debian, maybe Mandrake too) you just have to press any key, for
example the space-bar, for the auto-boot option to turn off, allowing you
more time to think/plan/experiment.

Hope this helps,
Denis