Description of problem: I have a fujitsu siemens amilo xa 2529-7006 laptop with an internal dvd optical drive from LG, model : HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-T20N I can boot but not install fedora, the drive seems to not be found after the driver detection process ( before the launch of anaconda). I managed to run fedora 8 after a long netinstall ( about 3 hours ), but when I boot fedora, I have a bunch of errors during 5 mins ( see attached file below. ) And then I can use fedora ( my dmesg is full of this errors anyway ) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora core 8 Linux version 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 (mockbuild.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-33)) #1 SMP Sat Mar 29 09:54:46 EDT 2008 How reproducible: Just boot fc8 disc or fc9 disc to have the same errors Actual results: I must wait over 5 minutes to reach the login screen of fedora because I have thoses errors when I boot. I can't see the drive with fdisk -l Expected results: Using my optical drive to install linux / read dvd movies etc... Additional info: I have also a bios bug #81 found when I start fedora
Created attachment 304099 [details] /var/log/messages
The drive reporting diagnositic failure would seem indicative of a hardware fault of some sort. The BIOS bug is just that, nothing we can do about it (we work around it enough already, we're just reporting that we did so).
This is a common problem with the amilo xa series. The fujitsu amilo xa 2528 have the same problem ( http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/message/214415 )
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Thank you dave. I don't know why but I can run the fedora core 6 dvd installer without problem, my optical drive work like a charm ... but this is fedora core 6 :-/
Updated today to kernel 2.6.24.5-85.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Apr 19 12:39:34 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux, still no progress
(In reply to comment #3) > This is a common problem with the amilo xa series. > The fujitsu amilo xa 2528 have the same problem ( > http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/message/214415 ) That is reported as rawhide bug 441752
Could you update this bug for fedora 9 ? the problem still persist
There is a fix for kernel 2.6.28-rc3 here : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11659 Hope to see this fix on the next fedora release !
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