13 Dec
2014
13 Dec
'14
4:57 p.m.
On Sun, 14 Dec 2014, Robert Jarratt wrote:
After choosing the type of installation (basic or
advanced) it tries to
offer the system disk selection. However, it keeps failing because it is
detecting the CD-ROM drive and saying it has an invalid block size. I can
hear it spin up the hard disk that I want to install on, so it should be
finding a suitable hard disk, but it looks like it keeps choking on the
CD-ROM drive. I can't tell if it is failing to see the hard disk properly,
but when I tried NetBSD on the same disk, and in the same machine, it is
fine, so the hard disk shouldn't be the problem.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
You need to have a CD-ROM drive that supports a 512-byte sector size and
set it in that mode -- supporting drives will have a jumper to select
between the usual 2kB and the 512b sector size.
HTH,
Maciej