Re: linux install on a mac with a scsi cdrom


Subject: Re: linux install on a mac with a scsi cdrom
From: H Brett Bolen (wingedlizard@nc.rr.com)
Date: Mon Dec 17 2001 - 15:55:29 MST


There are two stages to the boot loader. The first stage is the one
that detects
the cdrom. There is no shell prompt till you get to the second stage.

I've gotten a bit further with mandrake, but I'm not there yet.

b\375

Robert Story wrote:

>At 2:26 PM -0500 12/17/01, H Brett Bolen wrote:
>
>>When I boot using bootx with ydl2.1 it says cdrom not found. I tried both
>>the default install and the customized install. neither will let me
>>find the cdrom.
>>
>Try switching over to the shell window BEFORE selecting the install media
>and mounting the CD by hand. Check the dmesg log and /dev for different
>device names to try and mount on /mnt/media (or whatever the link is in
>/mnt)
>



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