Booting from USB DVD broken? (FC5T3)

[Josh]

In the media selection screen, selecting back seems to
detect the Fedora CD on the external drive. Also, on
conseole 6, anaconda segfault message is displayed. 

Josh

--- Dave Atkins <thedave at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> I'd like to confirm this.
> 
> I've tried many combinations of configurations, but
> I simply cannot
> install on my USB DVD based system.
> 
> The same media worked fine on two IDE-DVD systems.
> 
> Also, I have noticed in the media selection screen
> (Local CD, Local hd,
> etc.) that it fails to find the CD the first couple
> of times.  But, if I
> give a little pause before I press enter, it seems
> to advance OK.
> 
> The only error I get on V-console 3 is: Unable to
> load mousedev, but I
> think that's a red herring.
> 
> D.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 19:16 -0500, Jim Cornette
> wrote:
> > I seem to remember someone posting to the list
> regarding problems with 
> > installing from a USB interfaced DVD
> reader/writer. I could not find the 
> > previous post. I did however find the problem when
> attempting to install 
> >   FC5T3 on two different SBC systems using a
> Memorex DVD reader/writer.
> > I am able to install the FC5T2 installation from
> DVD. I checked the 
> > burned DVD using the USB DVD recorder/player and
> it passed the media test.
> > The FC5T5 install fails in both GUI and text
> modes. FC5T2 installs fine 
> > on the same computers and with the same DVD device
> and brand of blank 
> > DVD's used for the burn.
> > I filed a bug report but I thought I'd ask if
> others are having similar 
> > failures and what boot options could be issued to
> bypass the recently 
> > introduced error, if any workarounds available.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> 
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