f9 install notes
Andrew Farris
lordmorgul at gmail.com
Wed May 14 18:12:05 UTC 2008
Will Woods wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 10:35 -0700, Jim Bevier wrote:
>
>> I booted the new x86_64 dvd and asked anaconda to check it. It said it was
>> OK, and ejected the dvd. When I said to continue, I would get an error
>> dialog, over and over and installation would not continue. I had to do a
>> reset and start over and bypass the media check. This happened on two
>> different machines.
>
> There's a race condition at work there. The fix? Slooooow dooooown.
>
> 1) Test completes and the CD is ejected.
> 2) Re-insert the CD
> 3) Wait a few seconds for the CD to be detected (watch the drive light)
> 4) Hit "Continue"
>
> and you should be fine. If you end up with the error dialog: Insert the
> CD, *wait*, then hit OK.
I was about to ask if that was a known/documented issue for future work in
anaconda... then decided to search for myself (yay overcoming my laziness).
The problem is reported a few times, but that has been pretty much the same
behavior after mediachecks for a very long time.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446301
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446265
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442208
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=442188
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