Description of problem: Fedora 12 RC.4 dvd image fails to boot with isolinux: disk error on x86_64. System is a core2 system with an nvidia chipset motherboard. There are two seagate 7200.11 SATA disks attached. with an IDE attached NEC ND-2510A DVD burner. The same disk works fine on a thinkpad T60. The blue bootloader menu comes up, and then the install option takes me to a black screen with "isolinux: Disk error 80, AX = 4230, drive 9F Boot failed: press a key to retry..." I do not see the kernel or initrd load. boot.iso from http://linux.mirrors.es.net/fedora/development/x86_64/os/images/ dated Nov-08 comes up fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/12-RC.4/Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD/ [after it failed I rebooted into the F10 on this system and checked the checksums] $ sha256sum Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso c899659b8a7ceb8f005fc1a300b4e21c984a48fd7b8d8a332ed24bf8c3c479e8 Fedora-12-x86_64-DVD.iso $ sha256sum /dev/dvd c899659b8a7ceb8f005fc1a300b4e21c984a48fd7b8d8a332ed24bf8c3c479e8 /dev/dvd How reproducible: Every time on this hardware. Attempted five times. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Download F12 RC.4 x86_64 DVD iso. 2. Burn and Boot 3. Fail Actual results: Fail Expected results: Win? Additional info: (sorry for filing things against the Linux kernel, I can find a component for failures this early in the boot process.)
If you Google for this error, people hit it somewhat unpredictably on all sorts of releases - Fedora releases all the way back (earliest I saw was FC3), Ubuntu releases...I doubt it's anything specifically wrong with RC4. The standard cure seems to be a BIOS update, but Gregory says EVGA boards like his require that to be done from Windows and he doesn't have Windows, so it may be hard to test that. Still, Gregory, once you're home I'd recommend: a) check if the BIOS version is displayed when you boot or within BIOS configuration, and check on EVGA site if that's the latest version and if not what the changelog is (if you could post those details that'd be great) b) see if there's actually a BIOS update tool within the BIOS configuration, there may be one that the website doesn't mention c) if there's a BIOS update but no b), download it, and see if it might actually be a DOS-format executable you could run from a FreeDOS boot disk thanks! -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
We're fairly sure this is a typical single-system randomness issue; we've received no other reports of it, so it doesn't seem to be a systematic thing. Dropping from F12Blocker. -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
Having same problem. Fedora 12 x86-64. Burned 2 dvd's at diff speed(2x and 8x). CPU Pentium 4 2.66 G Motherboard: Intel D101GGC RAM: 512MB Graphics NVidia 6200LE The screen i am getting is Boot from CD: ISO LINUX 3.75 ..... isolinux: Disk error 80,AX = 4276, drive 9F Boot failed Any solution?
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