Setup not detecting EIDE DVD-ROM

[KiwiJoker]

Hi there,

Heres my scenario, ive downloaded the slackware iso(everything) and burnt as an image on a DVD with my DVD-ROM thats connected to my logic board via EIDE(ata-6).

My hardware:

Asus P5K SE Motherboard
Marvell 88SE6111 IDE Controller
1 x SATA-2 HD
1 x EIDE(DVD-ROM device connected)

Ive successfully booted the image, and loaded the kernel(hugesmp.s)

Partitioned the space on my (only) Hard drive being a SATA-2 connection

Ive entered the setup interface, and got as far as selecting the source media

However slack cannot detect my DVD-ROM with the image(which i assume contains the source media)

I've read elsewhere that the Marvell IDE controller is problematic, so i passed this option to the kernel when i boot = "hugesmp.s all-ide-generic"
But that does not help either.

so im stuck at this point, any advice much appreciated

[Freston]

Well, that's odd.

I take it when you partitioned your HD, you issued

cfdisk /dev/sda

What does "fdisk -l" say?? (-l is small L)
And "mount"? (without options, just to see which devices are mounted)

Did you try to select the DVD-ROM manually? The installer gives that option.

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It could be, but I'm by no means certain, that the naming scheme confuses the installer. I know that when you have a SATA HD and an IDE CDROM that this confuses the default assumptions of cfdisk. You'll need to specify manually then (hence my question about it above).
Maybe the DVD-ROM is called something exotic like /dev/hdg1 that the installer can't pick it up?? Try to find out using 'mount' or 'fdisk -l' and see if you can reach it manually through the installer.

I've read elsewhere that the Marvell IDE controller is problematic, so i passed this option to the kernel when i boot = "hugesmp.s all-ide-generic"

That is good reasoning. Trying kernel boot parameters is a good plan B. But let's first rule out that it's not something simpler.

[KiwiJoker]

Hi there,

Actually i had my partitions layed out before i booted from the slack image,

when I run fdisk -l

i get:

/dev/sda1 = (windows)
/dev/sda4 = (linux primary)
/dev/sda5 = (linux extended)
/dev/sda6 = (linux swap)

/dev/sdb1 = (flash drive)

But ive found a work around for now, i just extracted the needed dir for the setup process from the slack iso, and placed in a partition before i actually booted with slack, then directed the setup to find the source media on the HD partition, which worked fine

However, I still havent resolved this DVD issue, the device is just not being picked up

[Freston]

You fixed that quite nice
You're no stranger to *nix then??


Just out of curiosity

What does this say?

file /dev/dvd

[KiwiJoker]

Kiwi@darkstar:~$ file /dev/dvd
/dev/dvd: cannot open `/dev/dvd' (No such file or directory)
Kiwi@darkstar:~$

[KiwiJoker]

Well i upgraded my kernel to the current 2.6.24.4-smp kernel release, and now my DVD-ROM writer/burner is working well, =)

dmesg | grep CD :

scsi 6:0:0:0: CD-ROM ASUS DRW-1814BL 1.13 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

[khurramazizkhalid]

Hi there,

Actually i had my partitions layed out before i booted from the slack image,

when I run fdisk -l

i get:

/dev/sda1 = (windows)
/dev/sda4 = (linux primary)
/dev/sda5 = (linux extended)
/dev/sda6 = (linux swap)

/dev/sdb1 = (flash drive)

But ive found a work around for now, i just extracted the needed dir for the setup process from the slack iso, and placed in a partition before i actually booted with slack, then directed the setup to find the source media on the HD partition, which worked fine

However, I still havent resolved this DVD issue, the device is just not being picked up

Hi
I am facing the exact problem. I am installing RHEL 3.....and I have SATA HD and IDE DVD-ROM.........
the solution that u have given, can u plz explain it further as to which dir did u extract from the iso and placed it in ur HDD........
thnx....