Re: cdrom not working

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Where are you putting the kickstart file - on the CD-ROM on a floppy?

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 11:25:37AM -0600, dwittenb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I used several machines, all showed the same signs, all commercial 
> desktops.  (2 HP's and 1 Compaq).  All are IDE, seperate bus configs I 
> think, but as has been said before, this exact setup (1 of those is my 
> dedicated test machine) worked fine with 7.1, just 7.2 blows up with it.  
> I finally got mine working somehow, not really sure what changed, but I'm 
> working on one of my "broken" cd's to try and figure out what's different.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Tammy Fox wrote:
> 
> > What are the specs for your machine? 
> > i.e. what is the make and model, is the CDROM drive SCSI or IDE, is
> > it a master or slave device, etc.
> > 
> > On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 10:49:00AM -0500, Megan Pengelly wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I got my kickstart config updated for 7.2, but when I try to use it to
> > > > load a PC it tells me that no RH cd can be found in any of my drives.
> > > > If I boot off a standard boot floppy, and try to use that same cd it appears
> > > > to work fine.  So now I'm curious what in the ks file would cause
> > > > something like that ?
> > > 
> > > I'd like to add a resounding "Me too" to this.
> > > 
> > > Has anyone got their 7.1 scripts/install CDs working with 7.2 yet?  If so,
> > > is there anything tricky about 7.2 that I might have neglected to do?
> > > 
> > > To be specific:
> > > 
> > > 	I created the 7.2 CD in the same manner as I created the 7.1 CD.
> > > 
> > > 	The .disk1-i386 and .disk2-i386 files are there.
> > > 
> > > 	The files in RedHat/base are there:
> > > 	[root@beep base]# pwd
> > > 	/burn/redhat/7.2/cd.final/RedHat/base
> > > 	[root@beep base]# ls -a
> > > 	.  ..  comps  hdlist  hdlist2  hdstg1.img  netstg1.img  stage2.img
> > > 	[root@beep base]#
> > > 
> > > Yet, it tells me that there is no valid RedHat CD in the drive when I try
> > > to kickstart from it.
> > > 
> > > /megan
> > > 
> > > Megan Pengelly
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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> > 
> > 
> 
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> ========================
> Daniel Wittenberg
> System Administrator
> University of Iowa
> http://dan.its.uiowa.edu
> 
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