I spent several CDRs in trying to solve this puzzle. I am sharing this with the group so you will avoid the same problem as I had.
My problem with the FC3 cds was that I always had a "Fail" mark when checking FC3-2 and FC3-3 cds. I have check and rechecked the MD5SUMS of the isos I used. I have also tried burning them using a slow speed. And even tried burning using a different PC. All of them failed the media check. I googled for the mystery and found out that the new kernel being used by the CDs may have bugs with its IDE DMA driver. So the fix was to add the parameter ide=nodma when you run the boot CD. When I did this all the CDs I burnt passed the media check. Before I knew about this I tried reinstalling anyway and had trouble with the 2nd disk. I think the buggy DMA problem was causing it also. During the course of my search, I also came about a better way of burning CDS. The suggestion that I got was to use padding. So from now on my cd burning would be: "cdrecord dev=MyDev padsize=63s -pad -v --eject driveropts=burnfree my.iso" More from: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm Holden _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
