CDROM Boot Hangs But Only Under 6.x

[illoai at gmail.com]

On 25/12/2007, Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
> I am building a new server out of both older and brand new
> components.  It is based on a Pentium D 925 and ABIT LG-95Z
> mobo.  The DVD-RW is a Lite-On about a year old with very
> low hours on it.
>
> So ... here's a fun one:  I can boot and install FreeBSD 4.x (CD)
> or Novell SUSE Enterprise Linux Desktop 10 SP1 (DVD) via the
> DVD.  But attempting to do this with 6.x (I have tried 6.2R and
> 6.3-PRE disk #1) causes a hang during boot.  The loader gets
> as far as showing the vertical bar that ordinarily "spins"
> to show intitial kernel loading progress and the the machine
> just sits there.  There is some further activity on the optical
> drive at this point and then the cursor sort of jumps around a bit.
>
> I've not yet tried swapping the optical drive out - though I doubt
> this is the problem since I can load the other OSs.  I've tried
> removing and moving memory sticks in case this is a flakey
> memory problem - no change.  I've tried removing the only
> two cards in the machine: 3COM 905C-TX and an Adaptec 2940UW -
> no change.
>
> I have one last ditch thing I will try later tonight which is
> to force the DVD IDE port into PIO mode and out of DMA mode.
> But that's it.  I am stumped.  Ideas anyone?
>

If it is not hardware, check your bios settings (and mayhap
set back to default or very conservative) (of which the PIO
trick may work).

Also, 7.0 ran extremely well for me back in Sept., you might
try it as an alternative.

HTH

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