From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.51 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15smp i686) Trying to load fisher on a compaq 5100 workstation with CRD-8241B DVD drive fails. Bios reads CD1 and boots off it, loads up kernel, etc. and prompts for language and keyboard. Then can no longer read cd and you get stuck in dialog box asking if you are loading from the cd - which it can't read. console 4 window contains the messages (after removing and inserting the cd) disk change detected on device ide0(3,0) <4> Interleaved files not (yet) supported File unit size != 0 for ISO file (59392) Guinness boots off the CD (and reads it) just fine. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.insert cd1, boot system 2.click next twice 3. select cd click ok Actual Results: can't read cd Expected Results: install OS
We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.
By "Guinness boots off the CD (and reads it) just fine" I assume that you mean that Guinness boots off that *drive* and reads from it just fine, since you can't boot Guinness off the fisher CD. Given that assumption, this does sound typical of badly burned media. Can you try md5summing the media and comparing to the iso image?
The comment about guinness were intended to say, that the 7.0 cd boots ok and after booting it can read the cd to procede with the load. I do not believe that this is a cd reproduction problem. The same CD set has been used to load 2 other machines. Now, with the release of wolverine, I have the following data to add. The wolverine cd's have the same behavior as fisher. The cd bootstrap works, but after prompting for language info, it can't read the cd drive. I assume that the 2.4 kernel and cd driver have a problem with this hardware. Also, If I boot up NT on this box it has no problem reading the CD's.
Most likely IDE DMA related. Ivestigating
Can you give the _exact_ output of cat /proc/ide/hdX/model (X = a b c or d, the one where your CDrom drive is on?) Doesn't have to be 7.1beta, can be done in 7.0
booting the 7.0 installer, cat /proc/ide/hda/model results in Compaq CRD-8241B This is device hda because the hard drives are scsi. Does that confuse 7.1 anaconda?
anaconda handles this just fine
This drive has been added to the dma blacklist, and all kernel builds 2.4.2-0.1.25 or later should have this, so when such a kernel shows up in rawhide (we expect in the next few days), it should be testable.