Re: sony vaio 505 cdrom linux install problems
On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 02:49:10PM -0400, Lindsay Morris wrote:
> I'm trying to install from the debian GNU/Linux release 2.1 CDROM.
>
> The CDROM is the Sony PCGA-CD5, the vaio-branded PCMCIA CDROM.
>
> The Vaio boots from the CDROM with the Linux install CD in it, and
> starts the installation - but when it gets to the "Install Base OS
> Kernal" step, it asks me where the CDROM is, then fails to mount it no
> matter which of the many choices I give it (SCSI, IDE ctrl 1-4, device
> 1-2).
>
> Somewhere I read that at the boot prompt you have to type something like
> "linux ide2=0x170,0x376". I looked in my windows 98 ctonrol panel,
> system, device manager, hard disk controllers, second ide controller,
> and found the settings for it: 0x170, 0x 376, IRQ 15.
>
> I typed them in at the boot prompt: linux ide2=0x170,0x376,0xf
>
> but I got the same behavior as before, ie it can't mount the cd rom
> during the install.
>
> Anybody have answers, hints? Thanks....
Just a shot in the dark, but you might want to try ide1, as that's the
name for the second HD controller.
Adam
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