Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 219998
Disk 2 "not the correct Fedora Core CDROM" but SHA1 is OK, media verify passes
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:51 EST
I'm trying to upgrade FC5 to FC6 on an Intel DG965WH mobo with SATA disk. I make it all the way through the installation dialogs and it installs all of Disk 1. When it asks for Disk 2 and I insert the disk it rejects it with a dialog saying That's not the correct Fedora Core CDROM If I click OK it ejects the disk and asks for disk 2 again. I cannot get past this point in the installation. System: Intel DG965WH Motherboard Pentium D 930 processor BIOS version 1577 (latest) SATA set to AHCI mode (per Intel tech support) Intel Quick-Resume disabled in the BIOS WD1600JS (160GB SATA) 2GB memory Here's what I have tried so far: * SHA1SUM for all disks matches the published checksums * The installer's media verify function runs clean on all five CDs * On the off chance that the request for "Disk 2" was a typo and it really wanted a different disk I tried all five disks, and it rejected all five the same way. * The .discinfo file on the disk looks correct and identifies the disk as disk 2. After 5 hours of messing with this I gave up on the upgrade. I backed up all my data and did a clean (reformat) install, based on the recommendations in the release notes. This failed in exactly the same way at disk 2. At one point I also tried loading the CD .iso files into a subdirectory of the / filesystem and doing a hard-disk install. This makes it about 4/5ths of the way through and then hangs hard (Ctrl-Alt-Delete does not reboot, NMI is required). Notes: 1) This motherboard requires the all-generic-ide option on the install boot command line (per Intel tech support) in order to work at all. How reproducible: 100%
I downloaded the x86_64 ISOs and they installed correctly. I was under the impression that the i386 ISOs would work on an EM64T-capable processor.
Please hold any action on this bug until I verify something else. There's a small chance that the CD burning software got confused and picked up FC5 ISOs for disks 2-5. I will be able to check this tonight. I'm using Roxio CD Creator 6, which is normally very good about tracking the most recently used directory as the ISO source. IOW, after you burn an ISO from, say, directory A, further requests to burn an ISO file to CD open the file selection dialog to the same directory. However, this does not appear to be the case if the program was launched by double-clicking on the ISO (disk 1). In that case it appears the file dialog shows the previously used directory, which contained FC5 ISOs. I fear (expect, actually) that I will have to eat humble pie and apologize profusely for having entered this bug. I will verify tonight and post the results.
OK, what I described in comment #2 is exactly what happened. Mea culpa. Sincere apologies to all. Closing NOTABUG (only because there's no PIBCAK code :-)