Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 389051
F8 DVD is reported to be corrupt when trying to install on Gateway 920 server
Last modified: 2013-01-09 23:30:40 EST
Description of problem: When doing a normal install on a Gateway 920 server, the media check reports a corrupted disk. This DVD works fine on other computers. The Fedora 5 installation DVD media check reports that this is a good DVD. Fedora 5 loads and runs fine. Under a running Fedora 5, the Fedora 8 DVD can be read perfectly. This applies to multiple physical DVDs (both R+ and R-). I also swapped the memory, the DVD reader, the cabling.. everything but the motherboard, CPU, and power supply. I put this same DVD reader and cabling in another computer, and it worked fine. This appears to be directly related to the Fedora 8 distribution, and not a glitch with this one computer. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 8 How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. Get a Gateway 920 server with a Lite-On DVD reader/writer 2. Insert a Fedora 8 DVD, and proceed to do a media check 3. Actual results: The media check reports this disk as corrupted, and if you try to load it anyway, it quickly fails Expected results: It should load on this computer like it does on any other one. Additional info: I was able to load Fedora 8 by copying the iso file to a second disk in this computer. I couldn't figure out how to get it to load from the DVD. If you have some tests you would like me to run, please just send me the files, and I can try to see if they work on this computer. This is a fairly simple computer with 2 ATA disks, a DVD reader/writer, and a floppy disk. It fails with anywhere from 512MB to 2.5GB of memory. It is a Pentium 4, 2.6GHz processor. Nothing fancy here. The only reason Gateway calls it a server is that it doesn't have a sound card. Otherwise, it is essentially a desktop Intel box.
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Is this still an issue under F10? Sometimes problems like this can be blamed on the kernel drivers and i/o layer. I know we've made some UI flow fixes around media check, but I don't believe the actual algorithm itself has changed recently.
Fedora 8 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-01-07. Fedora 8 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.