Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 125693
Fedora Core CD not found during installation
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:06:52 EST
I can reproduce this bug, see bug #124081 Machine is a HP Pavillion 6635, 1HD, 1 CDROM I boot the installer for FC2, select English lang, and US keyboard. Then I select Local CDRom. Response is Fedora Core CD not found. tty3: trying to mount cd device hdc tty4: <4>hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } <4>hdc: command error: status=0x50 <4>end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 <4>isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 Additionally, I copied the CD sourfce RPM's to another machine and installed via FTP. Install via FTP worked fine, however when trying to mount a CD, any CD, I get the above command errors on hdc.
*** Bug 125785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I have noticed today, while installing on different hardware, that this install did not ask to verify the integrity of the installation CDROMs. Therefore, it appears that the Fedora core2 kernel is not recognizing the HP CDROM hardware at all.
can you attach the dmesg -s 128000 of this box please ?
Created attachment 101178 [details] output from: dmesg -s 128000
can you try disabling DMA on the CD drive with the hdc=noidedma boot argument ?
I have tried the following kernel options linux text hdc=noidedma linux hdc=noidedma The installer still does not ask to verify the install CDs and the CDRom is not found when selecting install via CDRom.
I think I may be seeing this on some older hardware. Can anybody report the output of 'hdparm -i /tmp/cdrom' from the console of the install, preferably with and without disabling dma as shown above?
I have this problem as well. Trying it with fc3-test2 however, so whatever the problem was, it's still there. Old machine (PIII). I've tried changing the CD from master to slave, from primary to secondary. Also tried BIOS-disabling DMA and 32-bit disk acces. Also tried the beforementioned linux hdc=noidedma. Tried as well linux hdparm -i /tmp/cdrom at the prompt, but I keep getting into the same place: anaconda won't find the CD it's booting from. So, anything I can do to provide parameters, I will. Problem behavior is exactly as Eric described. Just with the new version of the core.
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.