You can't pass "hda=cdrom" if the CDROM isn't the first drive attached to the primary IDE controller. On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Swenson, Chris wrote: > I have a Compaq ML350 which ran RH 8 fine. I went to do a clean install of > RH 9, it boots on the CD does a few things and then tells me it cannot find > the cd drive. I swapped out 3 different cd drives, I passed hda=cdrom , I > tried expert mode, I tried from floppy disks, I tried from the dvd instead > of the regular cds (I had a dvd drive in there at one point. all no go. > > Any ideas? > -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 To be notified of updates to the web site, send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list