I had a problem when i got a new mboard with sata support.I have a lg dvd writer and a samsung cdrw/dvd combo. When i boot off the samsung drive suse 9.1 would not detect my lg dvd writer. I had to boot off the lg dvd writer so that suse would detect both cd drives. The lg dvd writer was connected to hdc aswell. Regards On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:30:20 -0400 ken <gebser@speakeasy.net> wrote:
Jean-François Simon wrote:
Thank you all for responding.
Joe Morris writes You might try adding hdc=ide-cd at the boot prompt, or perhaps try the failsafe install.
It didn't work. It gave me the same error as previous
ken writes That would seem to be a sound conclusion. Try this: During the install-- when the DVD is mounted-- jump over to Ctrl-Alt-F1 and run "mount" to find out how it's mounted. Then use that information to remount the DVD when install says it's not mounted.
I can't go to the state where a console is available. By looking at the results of Ctrl-Alt-F1, I found the following messages :
- on Ctrl-Alt-F3 insmod /modules/ata_piix.ko Looing for a Suse Linux CD .. Checking CD /dev/sr0 That didn't work ....
- on Ctrl-Alt-F4 scsi1 : ata_piix Vendor AOPEN Model : DVD RW ISU8424E Rev 1.01 Type CD-ROM sr0 = scsi3-mmc drive : 62*62 ... Uniform CD_ROM driver Revision : 3.20 Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi1,channel 0 id 0 lun 0, type 5 SCSI error : < 1 0 0 0> return code 0*8000002 sr0 = Currenr sense key : Medium error additional sense : Unrecovered read error end_request : I/0 error,dev sr0 sector 64
Does it help you to figure out what is my problem ?
Thank you again
Jean-François,
It looks like SCSI errors are causing you to lose the DVD. You still need to log into a console during the install in order to do anything about this problem. If Ctrl-Alt-F1 isn't available, try others (Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F5, etc.). Note that when you're already in one console, you switch to another console with Alt-F[1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9], i.e., you don't need the Ctrl-key. Use Alt-F7 to get back to the GUI.
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