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Re: Dell Inspiron XPS Gen2 (M170) CDROM not detected



Did you try to append "libata.atapi_enabled=1" to your boot Parameters this helped with my Dell Inspiron 6000.

On Thu, 18 May 2006 12:38:19 -0400
Prepaid <prepaid@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> So I've been trying to install debian on a Dell Inspiron M170, and the boot
> CD doesn't find the CDROM drive. So what I did was I just installed debian
> through PXE booting and avoided that issue.
> 
> I got X11 working and all and now need to use my CDROM drive, but it's
> obviously not detected. I am at a loss as to how to proceed. I saw this bug
> report: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/09/msg00077.html
> 
> But am not able to remove ata_piix and reinsert it since it says it's
> already in use..
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> Thanks
> 


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Best regards

Andreas Klein



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