Bug#618929: Additional info

[Tremblay, Mike A]

It is certainly possible that my CD drive is flaky. Do you know of a
diagnostic test in the Debian release that I could use to simply read
several known good CDs for errors?

Thanks,
Mike

-Original Message-
From: Miguel Figueiredo [mailto:el...@debianpt.org] 
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2011 10:21 AM
To: Tremblay, Mike A
Cc: 618...@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#618929: Additional info

Hi,

according to the log you sent grub was successfully installed:

Mar 25 17:22:36 grub-installer: info: Installing grub on '/dev/sda'
Mar 25 17:22:37 grub-installer: info: grub-install supports --no-floppy
Mar 25 17:22:37 grub-installer: info: Running chroot /target
grub-install  --no-floppy --force /dev/sda
Mar 25 17:22:57 grub-installer: Installation finished. No error
reported.
Mar 25 17:22:57 grub-installer: info: grub-install ran successfully

 Mar 25 16:55:48 kernel: [ 3697.543489] sr 1:0:1:0: [sr0] Result:
hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
 Mar 25 16:55:48 kernel: [ 3697.543539] sr 1:0:1:0: [sr0] Sense Key :
Illegal Request [current] 
 Mar 25 16:55:48 kernel: [ 3697.543587] Info fld=0x504c0, ILI
 Mar 25 16:55:48 kernel: [ 3697.543661] sr 1:0:1:0: [sr0] Add. Sense:
Illegal mode for this track
 Mar 25 16:55:48 kernel: [ 3697.543740] sr 1:0:1:0: [sr0] CDB:
Read(10): 28 00 00 05 04 c0 00 00 02 00
 Mar 25 16:55:48 kernel: [ 3697.543823] end_request: I/O error, dev
sr0, sector 1315584

On your log there are also several read errors from the CD used to
install the system. 
This could be due to bad hardware, bad disk or even a driver issue. 
The read errors can lead to unexpected result.

I would be great if you burn an image on a cd-recorder /disc known to
work properly and verify if the burned cd is properly written/read
before installing.

You can also use a daily image with a newer kernel, those are available
on:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/daily-builds/daily/arch-latest/i386/is
o-cd/

Also Debian 6.0 got an update:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/6.0.1a/i386/iso-cd/

-- 
Melhores cumprimentos/Best regards,

Miguel Figueiredo
http://www.DebianPT.org



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Bug#618929: Additional info

[Tremblay, Mike A]

I have discovered, purely by accident, that if I have my Windows 98 O/S
disc in the CD drive as the Linux system is powering up, a program on
the Win98 disc will gain control and offer me the choices  Boot from
Hard disc, or Boot from CD ROM. On selecting the Hard disc choice, the
Linux systems boots. I briefly see the GRUB prompt on the screen as the
process starts, but it quickly scrolls off as the other start-up
messages are output.

 

I would rather the system start without the need for a CD in the drive.

 

Mike




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