On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 11:46, Brian Daniels wrote: > On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:02:16AM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > > Noticed something interesting on the Mandrake web site: > > http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/errata.php3#badlg > > > > "Error scenario: Installing 9.2 and being told unable to install the > > base system and subsequent reboot reveals that CD-ROM is physically > > dead. > > "Why: According to LG Electronics, their ODD (Optical Disc Drive) > > products do not support Linux nor do they test with Linux. > > Unfortunately, many Dell computers (possibly others) come with these > > CD-ROM drives. > > Very odd. I have a LG cd burner (Model=HL-DT-ST GCE-8320B according to > hdparm) in my box and have had no problems. > > My machine here at work has a HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8161B LG DVD drive, again > no problems. > > I'm using RedHat 9...I can't imagine what Mandrake is doing during the > install to have that effect!
Turns out it's a kernel patch that Mandrake applied that causes this problem: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker/2003-10/msg02437.php --Jeremy -- /---------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] trilug.org/~jeremy | | GPG Fingerprint: 712D 77C7 AB2D 2130 989F E135 6F9F F7BC CC1A 7B92 | \---------------------------------------------------------------------/
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