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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