On Sun, 11 May 2008 14:28:33 +0000, Mike wrote:

> Responding to Mark Madsen...
>> On Sat, 10 May 2008 22:34:48 +0000, Mike wrote:
>>
>>> Wuhoo! Slack 12.1 isos !!!
>>> <http://planet64bit.de/taxonomy/term/4> (Yes, I DID md5sum them with
>>> the slackware.com md5s!)
>>>
>>> Wipe old system, begin traditional Slack install procedure...
>>>
>>> Uh-oh! No "install from" CDROM found? Huh?
>>
>> Did you try booting with "ide=nodma"?
>
> Nope. (Didn't even know to try that.) Did notice Zenwalker live CD
> struggling around with dma for some minutes on boot though. This really
> does seem to be a 2.6.x kernel thing.


I have the same problem, on not-so-old-hardware.
Same problem Mike has, and my pc is 3 years old.
I don't have hdd and optical drive on the same channel.
The drive is less than a year old Seagate.
Never had problems with slack 10, 10,2, 11 or 12,
so it's was a shock when the installer failed to read the
disc.

At first I thought it was the cheap dvd-r disc problem,
so i tried burning another one, and another one, and finally
another one , and checked the md5sum, which is fine.

Didn't try the "ide=nodma" option, don't have time now.
If someone found the solution, i'd be happy to hear it,
because im short on time lately, otherwise i'd try
playing with it.