Booting problems probably caused by recording software or kernel

Jean Francois Martinez jfm512 at free.fr
Tue Mar 30 22:08:37 UTC 2004


By booting with the CD image from an older Redhat and performing a
mediacheck I noticed the following:

-Two CD/RWs containing the image of CD1 failed at the same place (at
67% of completion), I succeded with a CD/R but the mediacheck became
very slow at, you guessed it, 67% of completion).  That CD/R still
refused to boot from the 52x IDE CD reader, but it accepted to boot
from the SCSI  CD writer (24x for reading).  The above suggests
that something goes wrong around 67% ie two thirds of the CD.


-I also notice that xcdroast does not behave at all as used when
burning a CD: it used to fill its buffer and FIFO and keep them close
to 100%.  For the speed, it started relatively slow and went
accelerating.  But now the FIFO and buffer are constantly shifting
between 100% and 0%, the machine becomes also completely unresponsive:
echo to keypresses suffers from a notable delay.  

The distribution were the recording was done is Redhat 9, xcdroast is
0.98a13-4 built in Jan2003 so it hasn't changed, cdrecord is 2.0 release
11.9.1 and it hasn't moved either.   kernel is 2.4.20-30.9 and this one
has changed in Feb2004.  The box has an NVIDIA chipset and is using the
nforce driver from NVIDIA along with the nvidia kernel module needed
by the nvidia X driver.  

Are the other people who have had boot problems in the same situation
(ie using kernel 2.4.20-30.9 and/or using NVIDIA drivers?

 
-- 
Jean Francois Martinez <jfm512 at free.fr>





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