FC 5 can't fine CDROM during installation - Core 2 DUO motherboard

[R. G. Newbury]

 >" I have only used 1 cd rom in ide connector, and I tried setting it 
master or slave, and the hard drive 200g sata, same thing happened.
 > .... FC6 went well to the end and asked for 2nd CD! I tried FC5 in 
same machine again, it just could not find the CDROM ! Now I believe 
that versions before FC6 ( In Fedora family) may have proble with Core 2 
DUO motherboards, and in MS windows anything before XP ( even in XP may 
have some application problems - but I can prove) may have compatibility 
problem as well. Seems now only FC6 and Vista can install into this 
machine without problem, I am going to download the entire set of FC6 to 
try this machine out and might post my new findings.

I don't think it has anything to do with the motherboard or core duo. I 
had the same problem with one of my boxes, an ASUS mb with P4. I 
eventually got around it by removing the IDE cdrom and using a SCSI 
CD/DVDrom.
I had the same problem with an IBM THinkpad T40. I got around that by 
using a PXE boot and a tftp server on the Asus box.

The problem is somewhere in kudzu  or anaconda. probably the latter and 
probably has something to do with the re-mapping of the hardware during 
the transfer from the initial ram based boot image to  the 'real' 
hardware based image.


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