On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:45:30PM +0100, Neil Sumner wrote: > Hi, > Hi > I cannot boot with this drive. It is IDE/atapi and it works fine with > windows. Despite its inexpensive price it was reasonably 'exotic' 6 > months > ago as it has an 18x write speed, it works fine with windows > > OK, this problem has occured with EVERY version of Linux I have tried. > The > first bit of the startup is OK, but it refuses to mount the DVD drive; > *nix > all tell me that it must be an 'old' kind of drive' and that I should > find a > module or make a boot floppy. can you give us more details on this? specific messages would be best (hard to do I know, digital photos posted somewhere might work...) > > well, it isn't an old drive. I cant make a boot floppy as I do not have > (a) > a floppy drive (b) a working linux system. chicken and egg. > > The Debian help files tell me that all IDE DVD drives 'should' be fine. > Well > this one isn't and I cant find a module for it. > > Help, I want Debian ! :) www.goodbye-microsoft.com might be in order here. > > I tried waiting 6 months for it to get fixed but it has not happened. So, you claim no linux version will mount the cd after booting. I wonder if this isn't in fact a mobo issue or bios issue and not drive issue. There are now motherboards that will recognise an ide optical drive, but won't properly boot from them. Have you tried a live-cd and if so, what were the results? A
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