5:26 a.m.
i've noticed this before with earlier fedoras -- after i choose to
verify the install media (in this case, an f10 preview x86_64 dvd),
the verification completes and the DVD is ejected.
i push it back in, and hit "OK" to continue but apparently, the DVD
hasn't had time to spin up so i'm told that the install media can't be
found and the DVD is ejected. again.
i push it in again, wait a few seconds, "OK", same error. i push it
back in and now wait over 10 seconds for the DVD drive to finally
regain its sanity and figure it that, yes, it really does have a
fedora DVD and -- finally -- i can press "OK" and the install
continues.
is there no way to tweak the install to be smart enough to figure
out that, if the drive hasn't spun up yet, it should just hang on for
a few seconds until that's happened?
rday
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6:52 a.m.
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i've noticed this before with earlier fedoras -- after i choose to
verify the install media (in this case, an f10 preview x86_64 dvd),
the verification completes and the DVD is ejected.
i push it back in, and hit "OK" to continue but apparently, the DVD
hasn't had time to spin up so i'm told that the install media can't be
found and the DVD is ejected. again.
Interesting, sounds eerily familiar to the "k3b can't verify" problems
mentioned here recently,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/440343
-- Rex
7:27 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Rex Dieter wrote:
Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>
> i've noticed this before with earlier fedoras -- after i choose to
> verify the install media (in this case, an f10 preview x86_64 dvd),
> the verification completes and the DVD is ejected.
>
> i push it back in, and hit "OK" to continue but apparently, the DVD
> hasn't had time to spin up so i'm told that the install media can't be
> found and the DVD is ejected. again.
Interesting, sounds eerily familiar to the "k3b can't verify" problems
mentioned here recently,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/440343
ah, i was unaware that that symptom showed up elsewhere.
interesting. i will investigate further.
rday
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Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
Have classroom, will lecture.
http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
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8:58 a.m.
On Monday 17 November 2008 13:27:39 Robert P. J. Day wrote:
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > i've noticed this before with earlier fedoras -- after i choose to
> > verify the install media (in this case, an f10 preview x86_64 dvd),
> > the verification completes and the DVD is ejected.
> >
> > i push it back in, and hit "OK" to continue but apparently, the
DVD
> > hasn't had time to spin up so i'm told that the install media can't
be
> > found and the DVD is ejected. again.
>
> Interesting, sounds eerily familiar to the "k3b can't verify"
problems
> mentioned here recently,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/440343
ah, i was unaware that that symptom showed up elsewhere.
interesting. i will investigate further.
It seems to affect some drives and not others, so is probably hardware
dependent - at least that's my experience here.
ISTR that when you get the failure message there is a Force Load button? I'm
fairly sure I used that last time I burned.
Anne
9:30 a.m.
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 06:26 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i've noticed this before with earlier fedoras -- after i choose
to
verify the install media (in this case, an f10 preview x86_64 dvd),
the verification completes and the DVD is ejected.
i push it back in, and hit "OK" to continue but apparently, the DVD
hasn't had time to spin up so i'm told that the install media can't be
found and the DVD is ejected. again.
This is a longstanding (and very annoying) bug in anaconda's CD
detection code:
Bug 375011 - Can't continue installation after running media check
It was caused by a behavior change in the kernel SCSI/CD-ROM layers
sometime during F9 development, if memory serves. This bug affected all
CD/DVD images produced between F9 Final and F10 Preview.
It was finally fixed last week. Should work in current rawhide boot.iso
images and F10 Final images. Yay!
-w
9:54 a.m.
Will Woods wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 06:26 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i've noticed this before with earlier fedoras -- after i choose to
> verify the install media (in this case, an f10 preview x86_64 dvd),
> the verification completes and the DVD is ejected.
>
> i push it back in, and hit "OK" to continue but apparently, the DVD
> hasn't had time to spin up so i'm told that the install media can't be
> found and the DVD is ejected. again.
This is a longstanding (and very annoying) bug in anaconda's CD
detection code:
Bug 375011 - Can't continue installation after running media check
It was caused by a behavior change in the kernel SCSI/CD-ROM layers
sometime during F9 development, if memory serves. This bug affected all
CD/DVD images produced between F9 Final and F10 Preview.
It was finally fixed last week.
Any pointers or details? The similar k3b issue may also benefit.
-- Rex
2:09 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 09:54 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
Any pointers or details? The similar k3b issue may also benefit.
A snippit of code was missing to make anaconda go through the forced
load of the drive when the UI button was hit. This made anaconda wait
for hal I do believe to indicate that the media had been re-inserted and
read. Otherwise it was just trying to read from the drive immediately
and failing.
--
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature!
identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
10:03 a.m.
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Will Woods wrote:
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 06:26 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> i've noticed this before with earlier fedoras -- after i choose to
> verify the install media (in this case, an f10 preview x86_64 dvd),
> the verification completes and the DVD is ejected.
>
> i push it back in, and hit "OK" to continue but apparently, the DVD
> hasn't had time to spin up so i'm told that the install media can't be
> found and the DVD is ejected. again.
This is a longstanding (and very annoying) bug in anaconda's CD
detection code:
Bug 375011 - Can't continue installation after running media check
hmmmm ... i'm not *entirely* convinced that that's the same issue.
IIRC, i've run into that behaviour and the symptom was that you
couldn't continue the install after a media check *no matter how long
you waited* as opposed to just waiting long enough. perhaps i'm wrong.
in any event, i'll be dee-lighted to test the final release.
rday
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Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry:
Have classroom, will lecture.
http://crashcourse.ca Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
========================================================================
2:02 p.m.
On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 11:03 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
hmmmm ... i'm not *entirely* convinced that that's the same
issue.
IIRC, i've run into that behaviour and the symptom was that you
couldn't continue the install after a media check *no matter how long
you waited* as opposed to just waiting long enough.
The delay was hardware-dependent; some systems/drives it was 1-2s (and
thus they never really saw this problem). Mine took 15-30s. Maybe yours
just had a *really* long timeout?
perhaps i'm wrong.
in any event, i'll be dee-lighted to test the final release.
Or you can test a rawhide boot.iso, rather than checking to see if bugs
are fixed *after* it's too late to fix them.
-w
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