Ubuntu – Installing Ubuntu Server fails to detect SATA CD/DVD Drive

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  • O/S: Ubuntu 8.04 Server LTS 64-bit
  • Drive: Lite-On SATA CD/DVD Burner, DS-8A4S
  • Motherboard: Supermicro x8ste

Booting from the CD/DVD works fine, but the installer fails to detect the drive with the error:

No common CD-ROM drive was detected.

Best Answer

No definitive answer, but two thoughts here:

  1. You should look at the kernel messages when Ubuntu is booting and see if the system sees the disk controller or the disks attached to it. Based on the Super Micro motherboard/OS compatibility chart at http://www.supermicro.com/support/resources/OS/C7_X8.cfm I'm skeptical.

  2. It's true that Ubuntu 8.04 is the LTS version, but it's also true that it's two years old. It's not uncommon for old distributions to fail on newer hardware. You might want to give the 10.04 beta a try -- true, it's only a beta, but it's the next LTS version. I think odds are good that 10.04 (or possibly even one of the 9.* versions) will work.

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