Laptops :: Can't find my cd drive

I have a Sony Vaio C1-VE picturebook and having trouble booting dsl.

The cd drive is external and when I switch the laptop on when it connected I reach the boot screen successfully. Then I press enter and it asks me to press return or press space. I press space.

Then it says it is uncompressing linux. Then I get the logo. It then start searching for things. Then It starts to look for the cd drive and looks in everything such as sda1 sda2 etc.

It fails and dsl drops me on a (very limited) shell.

What should I do to make it find the cd drive?

Thanks

Hello,

That seems like the same problem I've got.
I get to the boot screen from a boot disk.
If I use a DSL bootdisk then it drops me into the same shell OR IF I use one of the USB bootdisks then it gets a bit further through the process and scans /dev/sda1 ... /dev/sdg8
Then is says
Acccessing DSL at /dev/sda1 .. cat: No file /KNOPPIX/etc/ld.so.cache.
then theres a whole load of commands failed with 'not found'
and then it hangs on,
kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs on 03:02

Ive used the floppy and CD on another pc which seems to work fine. ive also used 2.1 and 1.5 floppy bootdisks both standard and usb versions.

The cd is a wpn-sm52sx and the laptop is an advent 6480

I'd be greatful for any help

Which version of DSL?
How is your cdrom connected to the computer, pcmcia, usb, ?

I have tried 2.2b and 2.1. The cd drive connects by pcmcia.

mines dsl 2.2 and its a usb cdrom.
Ive just tried it with dsl 2.1 as well with the same results

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