Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 124118
Cannot mount second CD during anaconda install
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040207 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: I have a set of FC2 ISO CDs that are known to be fine (I used them to install FC on two other machines). However, when I use these CDs to install FC on my Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop, the anaconda install begins fine but runs into a problem when it prompts for the second CD to be inserted. When I insert it and click "OK", it does not get mounted and a dialog with this error message is displayed: "The CDROM could not be mounted." I have replicated the error with a completely different set of ISO CDs borrowed from someone else. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Take a set of ISO CDs of FC2 and a Dell Inspiron 8600 2.Boot from CD 1 and run the anaconda installer (choosing custom install) 3.Insert CD 2 when prompted Actual Results: The CD does not get mounted and a dialog with this error message is displayed: "The CDROM could not be mounted." Expected Results: The installer should have mounted CD 2 successfully and continued installing packages. Additional info: In tty4 the following is printed: <4>end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 <4>isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
Those look like problems with the drive reading the media. Just because one machine can read it, unfortunately, doesn't mean all machines can. Booting with 'linux ide=nodma' may help or you may need to burn the CDs at a lower speed. Booting with 'linux mediacheck' should allow you to verify the media before installation begins.