Re: installation can't see CD drive

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From: james
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 00:00

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On Sun, 22 Nov 1998 11:53:42 +0100, "Flemming Jensen"
<flemming@post1.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>I have a Red Hat LINUX and have made boot(sbpcd.i) and root(color.i) =
>floppys to install LINUX on its own harddisk.
>But I can't make the LILO boot see the CD drive. The drive is connected =
>to the secondary ide on board controller, with the adress 0x170.
>When I boot with the parameter=20
>mount sbpcd=3D0x170,SoundBlaster=20
>I get the message, that this adress is occupied.
>On a DOS boot the CD drive is found all right on the above adress. What =
>can be the problem.
>regards Flemming
>
>
Hi  had  the same problem booting from floppy, the cdrom was found
when booting  linux from hd

regards Jim

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