[opensuse] Error reading sector 512 on openSUSE DVD?
I was planning on installing openSUSE on my computer tonight, but... I can't. I am running up against a problem i can't seem to solve or find any info on. I have downloaded the 32 bit DVD ISO, and checked the MD5 sums. All is OK there. I tested the ISO by installing into VirtualBox (using VBox to mount the ISO for installing), and all worked there. I used K3B to burn the ISO to DVD, and tried installing on my computer... and it fails. It boots, and I see the initial welcome screen, then the boot menu. I can pick Installation from the menu, and the Linux kernel loads. The next screen is shown which has the tiny progress bar.. about 25% of the way in the installer stops, drops to text mode and asks me to insert CD1. I navigated through the text menus and found the Check Installation Media option.. ran that, and it almost immediately returns this message: Error reading sector 512. This DVD is broken. I Googled on this error and found only one hit to a forum (in Serbian) which appears to be a similar problem someone had on openSUSE 10.3.. but I can't read Serbian so I am just guessing... I tried burning the ISO 3 different times to 3 different DVDs, and got the exact same results. I burned a different ISO (Ubuntu) on one of the DVDs (rewritable) and it's fine... so I assume that the DVD burner, the K3B software, and the physical DVD media are functioning... Does anyone have any idea what this error message really means? or what I am missing here? C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I Googled on this error and found only one hit to a forum (in Serbian) which appears to be a similar problem someone had on openSUSE 10.3.. but I can't read Serbian so I am just guessing...
Msg me the link, and I can translate it to you ;) -- Best regards, Nick Zeljkovic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Clayton
I was planning on installing openSUSE on my computer tonight, but... I can't. I am running up against a problem i can't seem to solve or find any info on.
I have downloaded the 32 bit DVD ISO, and checked the MD5 sums. All is OK there. I tested the ISO by installing into VirtualBox (using VBox to mount the ISO for installing), and all worked there. I used K3B to burn the ISO to DVD, and tried installing on my computer... and it fails. It boots, and I see the initial welcome screen, then the boot menu. I can pick Installation from the menu, and the Linux kernel loads. The next screen is shown which has the tiny progress bar.. about 25% of the way in the installer stops, drops to text mode and asks me to insert CD1. I navigated through the text menus and found the Check Installation Media option.. ran that, and it almost immediately returns this message:
Error reading sector 512. This DVD is broken.
I Googled on this error and found only one hit to a forum (in Serbian) which appears to be a similar problem someone had on openSUSE 10.3.. but I can't read Serbian so I am just guessing...
I tried burning the ISO 3 different times to 3 different DVDs, and got the exact same results. I burned a different ISO (Ubuntu) on one of the DVDs (rewritable) and it's fine... so I assume that the DVD burner, the K3B software, and the physical DVD media are functioning...
Does anyone have any idea what this error message really means? or what I am missing here?
C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I speak Russian, so if you send me the link in Serbian I might be able to help you there. In general, it is a good idea to do the media check when you install the OS - your DVD may be fine, the problem may be with your DVD drive. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I speak Russian, so if you send me the link in Serbian I might be able to help you there.
The site is: http://www.linuxo.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,82/topic,8319.0/
In general, it is a good idea to do the media check when you install the OS - your DVD may be fine, the problem may be with your DVD drive.
Well that was what I was thinking might be a possibility.. so I tried burning other ISOs and they were fine... ie booted and started installs, passed media checks.. I didn't try the openSUSE 10.3 ISO.. but I tried a couple other Linux ISOs now.. and no problems. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Clayton
I speak Russian, so if you send me the link in Serbian I might be able to help you there.
The site is: http://www.linuxo.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,82/topic,8319.0/
In general, it is a good idea to do the media check when you install the OS - your DVD may be fine, the problem may be with your DVD drive.
Well that was what I was thinking might be a possibility.. so I tried burning other ISOs and they were fine... ie booted and started installs, passed media checks.. I didn't try the openSUSE 10.3 ISO.. but I tried a couple other Linux ISOs now.. and no problems.
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Clayton, That site is temporarily unavailable. Try checking the SuSE media too - specifically, before you do install, SuSE install ofers a media check - do it and see what it says. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Try checking the SuSE media too - specifically, before you do install, SuSE install ofers a media check - do it and see what it says.
I did that. I tested the ISO itself via booting in VirtualBox, and it passed the media check there. The media check on the physical DVD failed with the error reading sector 512 message. This is repeatable over 3 different DVDs I burnt on 3 different brands of DVD rewritables. I took one of those same DVD RWs and burnt other ISO images for other Linux installs and they worked fine. it is only the openSUSE 11.0 ISO that is failing in this way (I haven't tested a 10.3 ISO burn though). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
The site is: http://www.linuxo.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,82/topic,8319.0/
The guy who had a problem there said he burnt it again and it worked. Have you tried burning it on a regular DVD+/-R instead on RW ? In my personal experience, DVD-RWs are crap and never do the job right. -- Best regards, Nick Zeljkovic -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:47 PM, Nick Zeljkovic
The site is: http://www.linuxo.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,82/topic,8319.0/
The guy who had a problem there said he burnt it again and it worked.
Have you tried burning it on a regular DVD+/-R instead on RW ? In my personal experience, DVD-RWs are crap and never do the job right.
-- Best regards, Nick Zeljkovic
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That's a good point. I had similarly negative experiences with CDRW's back in the day too... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Have you tried burning it on a regular DVD+/-R instead on RW ? In my personal experience, DVD-RWs are crap and never do the job right.
That's a good point. I had similarly negative experiences with CDRW's back in the day too...
I tried that too... Tried DVD RW, +R and -R. Nothing would work. I even went so far as to buy a new DVD burner and that didn't work either... in fact, things deteriorated even more once i dropped in the new DVD burner. Previously I was able to at least get a complete burn (OK, with bad data, but the burn completed). After I installed the new DVD burner, I would get maybe 5% of a burn, and then it would fail with an "unknown error". Not so helpful. In the end I set up an external USB drive to be used as an install drive, and installed openSUSE 11.0 from there. That worked. I haven't yet tested to see if the DVD burn problem was "fixed" with the new install. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 28 June 2008 14:08, Clayton wrote:
I tried that too... Tried DVD RW, +R and -R. Nothing would work. I even went so far as to buy a new DVD burner and that didn't work either... in fact, things deteriorated even more once i dropped in the new DVD burner. Previously I was able to at least get a complete burn (OK, with bad data, but the burn completed). After I installed the new DVD burner, I would get maybe 5% of a burn, and then it would fail with an "unknown error". Not so helpful.
In the end I set up an external USB drive to be used as an install drive, and installed openSUSE 11.0 from there. That worked. I haven't yet tested to see if the DVD burn problem was "fixed" with the new install.
As I might have missed it, did you change the cable to the burner? If so, then disregard. About the only other thing would be the controller on the MB.. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 4:45pm up 6 days 21:29, 4 users, load average: 2.02, 2.09, 2.15 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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