my linux box =(

[Daniel R . Kilbourne]

hmm....basic question, but does the BIOS have the option o boot from CD? Can you boot another OS (Windows) from CD? are all master/slave jumpers correct?



On Thu, Aug 24, 2000 at 06:28:51PM +0000, Mr Coffee spake:

> i have finished building my linux computer and i cant get it to install 
> anythign from CD-Rom.  I suspect its because its a IDE yamaha CD-RW.
> 
> what i have in it right now:
> 
> tyan tiger mobo
> ATI xpert 2000 video card
> sound blaster sound card
> 56k modem (ISA)
> 10/100 network card
> 
> primary IDE controller:
> 
> IDE HD
> IDE HD
> 
> secondary IDE controller:
> 
> CD-RW
> 
> now when i try to boot it up it doesn't boot off of the cd-rom so i tryed 
> using a boot disk for that distro. (redhat 6.2 from the meeting i came to) 
> and it works fine till it says "where will the packets be" i select local 
> cd-rom.  then my choices are scsi or other
> i chose other and it gives me a drivers list. ive tryed all he drivers in 
> the other and the scsi sections and i always get a message similar to 
> "/tmp/something.o : init_module : device or rescource busy"
> its got me stumped. can anyone help me out i would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> 					- Stu
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