Bug#320372: Installation problem

[lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:15:39PM -0700, Bill Dugan wrote:
> Comments/Problems:
>  
> The machine boots from the CD-ROM and lets me choose the language, country,
> and keyboard layout.  The dialog box appears saying "Detecting hardware to
> find CD-ROM drives" and the gauge goes up to 100% and disappears, then after
> a pause of a few seconds, I get the error message:
>  
> =
> [!!] Detect and mount CD-ROM
>  
> Your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted.  This probably means that the
> CD-ROM was not in the drive.  If so you can insert it and try again.
>  
> Try again to mount the CD-ROM?
> =
>  
> The disc is a CD-RW, in case it matters.

It shouldn't matter if it could read it and boot it.

Is the drive IDE, SCSI, SATA, or something old?

What controller model is it attached to?

I suspect the answer to a 500mhz celeron to be ide, in which case the
problem doesn't make much sense, unless someone atteched a cdrom drive
as slave without a master on an ide port, which works sometimes and not
other times.

Len Sorensen