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From: Peter Tenenbaum on 31 May 2010 14:50 Hi, again -- I recently posted on an issue with installing Debian Lenny on a new workstation with a Lite-On DVD writer. I had thought that the problem was the driver, but it turns out that my problem is a more familiar one, the "No common CD-ROM drive was detected" error with SATA optical drives. I've seen a couple of suggestions around the internet for what to do, but I'm not able to understand them well enough to use them. 1. Boot in expert26 mode and deselect ata-piix. My problem is that I don't know how to boot into expert26 mode from the Debian Lenny DVD I have. Can I defeat the autorun of the installer on the Debian DVDs? It looks like I can edit the commands which come up on the installer boot menu, so maybe that's the thing to do. 2. Any other suggestions for how to get around this apparently-notorious issue in the installer? There are many references to it over the years, but many of them are several years old and I'm reluctant to try them out now. Thanks in advance, -PT
From: Camaleón on 31 May 2010 16:20 On Mon, 31 May 2010 11:27:55 -0700, Peter Tenenbaum wrote: > Hi, again -- I recently posted on an issue with installing Debian Lenny > on a new workstation with a Lite-On DVD writer. I had thought that the > problem was the driver, but it turns out that my problem is a more > familiar one, the "No common CD-ROM drive was detected" error with SATA > optical drives. Strange... I did not see that error when installing Lenny from any of my sata DVD drives :-? Could this be related to the BIOS SATA mode? I expressly switch all my computers to use AHCI (not "RAID" nor "enhanced SATA" mode) whether available. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.05.31.20.13.58(a)gmail.com
From: Peter Tenenbaum on 31 May 2010 17:10 Camaleon -- your suggestion did the trick! I changed the appropriate BIOS setting to AHCI, and the install was able to continue. The installer is currently setting up the filesystem on the hard drive... Thanks for straightening that out for me! -PT On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:27 AM, Peter Tenenbaum <quarkpt(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, again -- I recently posted on an issue with installing Debian Lenny on > a new workstation with a Lite-On DVD writer. I had thought that the problem > was the driver, but it turns out that my problem is a more familiar one, the > "No common CD-ROM drive was detected" error with SATA optical drives. I've > seen a couple of suggestions around the internet for what to do, but I'm not > able to understand them well enough to use them. > > 1. Boot in expert26 mode and deselect ata-piix. My problem is that I > don't know how to boot into expert26 mode from the Debian Lenny DVD I have. > Can I defeat the autorun of the installer on the Debian DVDs? It looks > like I can edit the commands which come up on the installer boot menu, so > maybe that's the thing to do. > > 2. Any other suggestions for how to get around this apparently-notorious > issue in the installer? There are many references to it over the years, but > many of them are several years old and I'm reluctant to try them out now. > > Thanks in advance, > -PT >
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