[Eug-lug] CD ROM problems

[Steve]

Would this be 10 Community or is it 10 Official?

Community had lots of issues related to CD installation. I use scsi CDs
in one desktop and ended up having to install from nfs. Official didn't
have a problem installing off of the scsi attached CD. Once the other
issues were resolved, my Vaio didn't have a problem installing off of
IDE on either Community or Official. 

With either version you have to carefully look at memory, it's very
picky about ram errors. On my laptop and one desktop I ended up changing
out the memory modules to get 10 to install and work without issue. In
both cases it produced the same error that your describing and was
failing on installing various rpm packages (the problem looked like
physical media issues). On the desktop I did get a load installed by
stepping the system down to 1Ghz equiv. and using nfs but I still had
runtime problems until I swapped the memory out with verified dual-bank
PC3200 modules. The ordeal taught to not be so cheap!

Oh yeah, you probably want to turn ACPI back on to get control of
processor temp (fan speed and what not).

Steve

On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 17:15, Gordon Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 May 2004 03:07 pm, Gordon Johnson wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having problems with my CD since, and during, the installation of
> > Mandrake 10.  Initially I was trying to install from a CD reader.  Got to
> > the "press enter to install" but then it hung trying to read the cd further
> > saying "kernel BUG - invalid response code 000000".
> >
> > I ended up removing the reader and booting from the writer and getting
> > installed.  Half the time  I can mount and read a cd but when I eject the
> > first cd I can't shut the door to read a second one.  The other half I
> > can't get the door to shut the first time.
> >
> > I've messed around a bit with bios settings for the cd to no avail.
> >
> > Any ideas?  I've tried two readers and one rw.  An "append=" line in
> > lilo.conf?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Gord
> 
> It _appears_ to be resolved.  Changed lilo.conf from
> append="devfs=mount acpi=ht"  
> to
> append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
> 
> I'm assuming it was the 'ide-scsi' part.  Odd that this wouldn't be setup 
> during installation.
> 
> Cheers,
> Gord
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