[ILUG-Social] Help the struggling newbie?

[Martin Boyle]

I know this feeling.
I've encountered the same problem twice in the past with Redhat installs.

I just gave up and took the easy solution. I installed Mandrake.

Was trying to install RH6.2 at least once. Possibly 7.0 the other time.
Both time it died booting off the cd at:
/sbin/loader

And as you said it all worked in windows :-(

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Matthews [mailto:paul at privatehell.com]
> Sent: 11 March 2001 21:48
> To: social at linux.ie
> Subject: [ILUG-Social] Help the struggling newbie?
> 
> 
> Seems to be some problem with my cd-rom (a rite-on ltn262, 
> 16x, IDE ATAPI)-
> 
> Using RedHat v7 (but problem seems to be general)
> 
> On rebooting with a RH boot disk and the CD in the drive it gets as far as

> running /sbin/loader - without the CD in the drive it gets as far as
asking for 
> the CD to be inserted and then hangs.
> 
> Debian (vintage 1.3, circa 1997) gives a bit more info- irq timeout: 
> status=0x58, and this at least has the common decency to do 
> an ATAPI reset and 
> carry on.
> 


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