-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Smith wrote: <snip> > $ eject > eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom' in reading your thread, i am presuming that you have gone thru your bios setup and correctly tried to enable your dvd drive and that controller is enabled and insured that control/data and power connectors are properly seated. [with bios update and reinstall of old bios] as a suggestion, do you have another cd or dvd drive that you can connect in place of current dvd drive, or another hard drive? this would prove out that cable and controller are ok. if not, move dvd drive to other controller. also, when you boot, does bios show 'updating nvram ... ok'? if not, battery may be getting low. - -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIu5Xg+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAn/7AKCuAJber51IajTA0cw6WKRCnjIQoQCgufRN 2w0Ty/0E+jYwl3HWDGb4x54= =tlSZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines