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Comment 13 for bug 260608

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Shahee (shahee-tribalglobe) wrote : Re: [Bug 260608] Re: intrepid daily alternate cd fails to find cd-rom on powerbook G4

That sounds good... right?

On 1-Dec-08, at 6:24 PM, Kip Warner wrote:

> Ah yes, that's exactly it. I forgot about how the BIOS has disk
> emulation for bootable CDROMs.
>
> --
> intrepid daily alternate cd fails to find cd-rom on powerbook G4
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260608
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> Status in “linux” source package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “linux-ports” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Using the powerpc alternate 20080823 cd. on a powerbook G4 ti 1Ghz.
>
> Install boots, lets me choose language and keyboard layout. then i
> get the message
>
> "No common CD-ROM drive was detected
> You may need to load additional CD-ROM drivers from a floppy...
> Otherwise you you willl be give the option to manually select CD-
> ROM modules. Load drivers from Floppy?
> Yes NO"
>
> In some ubuntu dev versions it has been necessary to load ide-core
> to boot ubuntu on this machine. but at a shell trying modprobe ide-
> core gives
> FATAL: Module ide_core not found.
>
> /lib/modules/2.6.25-1-powerpc/kernel/drivers/ide only contains ide-
> disk.ko, ide-floppy.ko and ide-tape.ko