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Linux is having trouble detecting my IDE CD-ROM drive during the install. Can I force the install to see it?

April 26, 2017CD-ROM detecting drive force IDE install linux

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Linux is having trouble detecting my IDE CD-ROM drive during the install. Can I force the install to see it?

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Sometimes IDE CD-ROM drives will not be detected either due to the fact that they are on a IDE channel the BIOS doesn’t know about, or that when queried, replies back with data that Linux thinks is bogus (Early NEC IDE CD-ROMs respond with data saying that it is an IDE floppy drive instead of a CD-ROM.) To solve your problem, you need to specify the the CD-ROM drive from the LILO boot prompt. When you see boot: or LILO: You need to type in linux hdX=cdrom where X is the IDE letter that Linux would specify for that drive depending on which IDE bus it is on.