On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2003 04:44 pm, Noah A Hicks wrote:
> > Hello
> > I just downloaded MDK 9.1 RC1 and burned the CDs. Booting off disk 1
> > gives the following message:
> > I can't access a Mandrake Linux Installation disc in your CDROM drive
> > (Toshiba CD-ROM XM-1902B) Retry?
> >
> > Selecting "Retry" gives the same message again.
> >
> > The last few lines of the kernel message shows the following:
> > <4> hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
> > <3> hdc: lost interrupt
> > <4> Interleaved files not (yet) supported
> > <4> File unit size !=0 for ISO file (75776)
> > <4> hdc: status error: status=0x58 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest}
> > <4> hdc: status error: error=0x00
> > <3> hdc: drive not ready for command
> >
> > This is the first time I have had a problem booting off a cd with
> > Mandrake. It has happened with a few other distro's but I could not
> > figure it out. Why is this happening and is there a way to work around
> > it?
> >
> > I appreciate your time and answers,
> > -Noah
> Noah, are you sure that you got a good download by checking the md5sum of the
> .iso of each CD? And are you sure you burned an image of the iso and did not
> just copy it? Just fumbling in the dark here.
> --
> Dennis M. linux user #180842
>
>
Hi Dennis, Thanks for the help
The CD booted a WIN 2000 desktop machine just fine. I wasn't able to
check the MD5SUM because I have to burn the cd's from a computer that I
can't install any software on. But if the CD boots fine from one computer
it should be the same for all of them right?
-Noah
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