hi! I've been a big fan on Mandrake linux 10.x series so far.. but to my disapointment i can't get it install (10.1 or 10.2 (beta 2) on my main comp getting the msg ""no CDROM device detected"".. i've tried google time and time again.. anyway

This are my specs

P4 2.8 CPU c
Gigabyte 865PE (with serial ATA support, AGP X8)
512 ram
one 80 gig sata HD and one 120 gig sata HD (seperate HD's.. not raided)
geforce 5200 FX
A06 pioneer DVD burner/cdr-w
lite-on 52X cdr-w

The I've tried alot of stuff.. including the F1, alt1 it all just comes up as "no cdrom device found" i suspect the current kernel used in mandrake 10.1 and 10.2 beta doesn't support my mother board yet (my friend said something it might have to do with the "silcon image"?).. or something

someone help this poor comp out it's suffering... it's running windows XP 0_o

lets go for the simple one first?

can you post if you have fail for both the pioneer and aopen?

2) I think it is more a bios config issue......if (1) fails see if you can disable plugnplay configs ?

3) then have a look at knoppix cd to see if it detects a change?

yes it fails on both drives... (aopen? not sure what you're talking about....)

i'll test your suggestions now thanks

"2) I think it is more a bios config issue......if (1) fails see if you can disable plugnplay configs ?

3) then have a look at knoppix cd to see if it detects a change?"

P.S : I just updated my bios.. (no changes.. still fail) how do i "disable plugnplay configs" there is a PnP/something section... but it isn't just a plain
PnP support : enable/auto/disable

ah... i have idea.. but no idea how to do it.. but since i have the images still on HD... can i install mandrake using those?... i tried the option "hard disk" but it says "no partitions found" (FTP etc isn't a option for me...)

this apparently is out of date but may give you a clue?
http://fhj52.tripod.com/linux/MDK_HD_INSTALL.html

someone succeeded
http://www.google.com.au/groups?q=ma...gy.com&rnum=12

umm... that guy who got it to work... umm.. would you know some simple instructions of that?

oh.. btw.. i tired booting Knoppix, it didn't boot to 0o

I have the same problem, but on a slightly different setup.

P4 3.0 GHz
Abit IS7-E (intel ICH5 chipset)
36Gb SATA (raptor )
30GB ATA100
160Gb SATA
(no raid on any of the drives)
liteon DVD burner (unshure of the model number, but it shouldn't matter)
1 GIG DDR RAM
GF 6800 ULTRA
Audigy 2 zc

Knoppix boots up just fine (it's a bit older version though).

The install thows out the message "no CDROM device detected" even though it's currently running on it.
I have the dvd version fo mandrake 10.1

for the cd drive try different cheatcodes for knoppix to see if they work
http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Cheat_Codes

try in any order

knoppix with the following
pnpbios=off
noscsi


as to a more simple instruction for hd iso install No have not tried
but I wonder if a smartboot manager image on a floppy may help you?

http://btmgr.webframe.org/

its on every linuxformat magazine cd or dvd

hmm.. i've just tried SuSe.. yea it works for some reason no installation probls.... but i still want prefer mandake 100 times more xD.. i downloaded a copy of knoppix and tried booting that... it didn't work.. i'll try to write down all the stuff i see that sems suspicous (i noticed the first time code saying "segemtation error" and things)