Laptops :: Can't find my cd drive

Cheers roberts, I'll try that next. I'm on a course next week but i'll let you know if its worked in a few days

This problem with booting from PCMCIA connected CD-Roms seems to be quite widespread. My Toshiba Portege (with DOS 6.0 only) will boot up every Linux .ISO I have tried successfully and will then stumble when trying to access the data itself. It is as if the CD-Rom can't see itself. Yes, a message about either a SCSI issue or a failure to find the data pops up. I have allways got round this with a 'poor mans' install (ISO files copied to the hard disk) but you need to have the means to get the files onto the HD in the first place. It surprises me now that this PCMCIA CDROM booting problem is so widespread and that a standard fix in Linux ISO booting is not available.
Robert_S thanks for the boot parameter tip - will try "boot: dsl ide2=0x180 nopcmcia" tonight or the USB stick trick.

Oh heck....boot prompt doesn't work still get the regular "knoppix file system cannot be found dropping you etc.... Thanks anyway RobertS

I am having problems with DSL 2.2b finding my pcmcia cd-rom connected to my IBM Thinkpad.

I tried booting with the floppy disk image and typing:

boot: dsl ide2=0x180 nopcmcia

that didn't work, it keeps saying "no knoppix filesystem found"

umm, now what?

its not finding the pcmcia CD-ROM at all for some reason, I don't know why

DSL seems to forget about the PCMCIA-attached CDROM on my Sony Viao PCG-C1X which is a similar model. But puppy linux does not -- it boots cleanly from the CD ... as long as you cold boot.

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