Hi, I am new to SuSe and new to this list. I searched the backnumbers of this list for something relevant, but nothing showed up. I guess I need a bit of help now: I am trying to install SuSe PPC 7.1 on my OLDWORLD Umax Apus 2000, via BootX, as it should be. Booting into Linux is successful, all my Hardware is detected by the kernel, so everything looks OK until Linuxrc comes into play. Somewhere (that is, it seems that there is no really exact point of time) before or after the first GUI dialog asking to choose between text-based or GUI based installation, the connection to the CD-Rom seems to get lost. Shortly later, I get an error message saying that an error had occured. If I try to move on installing - that is, if the system does not already hang at that point - YaST shows a message like "Trying to mount the CD-Rom", and when I am lucky, after several ages I get an error message that the operation failed, but mostly the message hangs there for several minutes/forever with no reading sound of the device. Reading sound of the device, however, can be heard well into Linuxrc's doing its hardware checking. To be more specific, this is the relevant extract from the kernel messages: Detected scsi CD-Rom sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 So the built in Matsushita CD-Rom drive was clearly correctly detected. After detecting usb devices etc., at the very end of the messages I have (twice, that is) VFS : Disk change detected on device sr(11,0) Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. scsi disk I/O error: dev 08:00, sector 0 The odd thing is, that neither was there a disk change nor is the CD missing from the drive. The CD-Rom is the only device on the bus, my internal HD is IDE. I experimented with sr0=noautotune, but to no avail. I tried an older kernel from a LinuxPPC distribution I had successfully installed on the same machine with the same hardware configuration about a year ago, but never used it afterwards, but again no success. (I still can boot into this Linux installation, but I forgot my password, since I never used it.) Ideas anybody? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Peter __ Peter Hartmann ________ mailto:hphartmann@justmail.de