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Re: Ultimate Noob Question


From: Ed Berger <eberger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:59:44 -0400

imag1nary number wrote:
Unfortunately booting the LiveCD has stumped me. It asks something like where to mount root, then gives the options to panic, abort, and something else.

I had a similar problems, where I had hard disk on one IDE cable, set as master, (or as a SATA on another machine), and optical drive (dvd-rw or cdrw) on the other IDE as master. My fix was to add a second optical drive (liteon dvd-rom) as a slave drive, on the IDE cable of the non-functional optical drive, and for whatever reason, booting from that functioned.


I didn't look farther than that, since it fixed the immediate problem that stopped installs from functioning.

I see other problems with errors when trying to talk to the optical drives complaining about misaligned accesses, not multiple of 2 sectors, or something like that, where cdcontrol might work, to play tracks of an audio cd, with the error, or it might not, depending on the drive.



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