Josh Rodman wrote:
Hello Sasa,
* Sasa Janiska (sjaniska@inet.hr) [990428 11:25]:
Hi!
After so many preaching to my friend, finally he allowed me to put Linux on one partition on his HD.
Nut, unfortunately, I have a problem trying to install SuSE 6.0.
After some time, I (hopefully) isolated the culprit. There is problem with Atapi CD-ROM. When I put boot disk in floppy drive, install routine normally starts, recognizes HD as hda and CD-ROM, as hdb, but after that machine hangs, blank screen. When I detached CD-ROM, everything is OK.
We tried all kinds of combinations (master & slave), but without any success.
I am aware of the problem from the description in the SuSE manual (2.8.5), tried also to put the explicit parameter, but nothing happened. When I try to run loadlin from HD, program selects EIDE2 kernel.
I actually disagree with this section of the manual when it suggests that having the CDROM as a master on the second controller is incorrect. In any case, many IDE drives are ... not very robust, to be polite.
I added a third HD to my system (a P166 Sony VAIO with 64MB RAM) a couple of months ago. It has an autobooting CDROM that was set as MASTER on IDE2. I wanted my new HD to be MASTER on IDE2 so I moved my CDROM to slave on IDE2 (and changed the jumbers on both appropriately) and my bios refused to recognize my new HD until I made my CDROM master again and the new HD slave on IDE2. I decided I didn't care as long as I could use the new HD and my CDROM would continue to autoboot. <snip> -- JLK Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is right. -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>