On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 00:15, Noah A Hicks wrote:
> 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
then you have a cd reader that is getting old and not reading
correctly,,, try a different cdreader in the same box, or burn an
additional cdrom at a slower burn speed adn see if that works
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