I am attempting to install Knoppmyth R5C7 on an old machine which I know may struggle to support it. The computer is a Pentium 2 350 Mhz, 256 MB.

When I try to boot from the CD, Knoppix starts but freezes at
"Looking for CDROM in: /dev/hdc"

I have tried booting with NODMA, NOAPIC, FAILSAFE all with the same result.

I have investigated the BIOS and tried changing secondary IDE detection from Auto to CDROM. No joy.

I have tried the disk in a newer computer and it works and allows installation.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Further to the above I have checked the MD5sum and reburnt the CD at the slowest speed. Same result.

Anyone??

Problem Solved.

I changed the CDROM drive for another and it worked. It's funny because the original drive has allowed me to install other distros on the machine.

great search engine on this forum... i didnt find this post by searching "Looking for CDROM in:"

Anyways im having the same problem, expcept mine is searching for a CDROM in hda ?????

by the way did you ever get this system working? I have a P2 400mhz backend running dual tuners at the moment, its doable

Currently building a new backend P3 ighz... if i can get it to boot

Sounds like a bad burn/media/drive. You should first vary the MD5Sum of the ISO you download then:
Reburn at a lower speed or different media.
Try another CD-ROM drive in teh system.

thanks for the reply cecil - appreciated.

I have installed using this CDR and this CDROM drive before, I will still try another disc and drive...

By the way i low level formatted my drive and it made no difference... doh!

sorted!!!

dodgy IDE cable on my hard disk (pri master)

I noticed the bios was also having issues with detecting the drive properly, replaced the cable and its all good

Soundoff,

In answer to your question about did I get my system working on the PII, the answer is no. I suspect it is due to my tuner card Winfast XP2000 Expert which does not seem to be very compatible with MythTV. My next project is to try Knoppmyth in a more modern machine P4 2.6Ghz but still using the same card (because that's what I have).

To get away with a very low end machine you either need to be streaming DVB broadcasts directly to your hard drive, or if your encoding analog TV use a card that does hardware encoding..

I have dual digital tuners in my P2 400 and it works great. Only problem is mythweb is a little slow but its still very useable