On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:43 AM, mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > PC configuration: > DVD/CD: Samsung SH-D163B > HD : WD Caviar GP 5000AACS 500GB S-ATA-II > MAINB : GIGABYTE MA78GM-S2H 780G AM2+ DDR2 > CPU : AMD Athlon X2 4450e Brisbane EE 2,3GHz > RAM : 4x 2GB DDR2 PC800 > Grafic: ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT > > Symptoms > o I tried both desktop and alternate CDs > o CD's report read errors during cd integrity test with intact ubuntu > live CD's > o Strange thing is that it is possbile to boot OpenSolaris 2008.05 > live CD. CD verification of OpenSolaris live CD reports no problems. > o Ubuntu 8.10 beta live cd reports probem with IOMMU; Kernel parameter > set to IOMMU=noaperture but still integrity test errors from CD. > o Bios AHCI mode does not resolve the issue, I switched back to IDE > mode > o The CD drive is already a replacement. It works! > > Other problems: > o Impossible to mount USB sticks with installed x32 Ubuntu 8.04 > (but possible to boot and install from USB at first place) > > To me this seems that the ubuntu CD driver has a problem with the Sata > drive. Since I do not want to surrender the CD/DVD support of my > desktop PC I wounder if it would be possible to install from LAN or > USB and fix the CD drive later. But I did not find anything that this > is possible to resolve. > I do not want to switch to OpenSolaris either and I guess Debian will > have the same problem. > > At the moment I do not know how to proceed. Any ideas?
Sounds very bad for those of us who are modern enough to have a SATA CD drive... Are you sure it's not the CD? Did you do a md5 hash check on the ISO before you burned it? -- Christopher Stamper Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://tinyurl.com/2ooncg gTalk: http://tinyurl.com/6e359r Skype: cdstamper --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
