media check errors w/ 3.91

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 19:49:14 UTC 2005


On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:47:26PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote:
 > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
 > > Am Mo, den 18.04.2005 schrieb Kevin B. Walker um 21:30:
 > > > I keep getting media check errors when attempting to install FC4t2. The
 > > > downloaded isos check out fine with sha1sum but the mediacheck fails
 > > > every time. I've downloaded and burned on two different systems. I've
 > > > heard rumors that this is not unusual. Nothing authoritative though.
 > > Boot into install with "linux ide=nodma". Or next time burn the ISO
 > > image files with "-pad" parameter of cdrecord.
 > 
 > Using -pad very rarely works, and ide=nodma only works in about half the 
 > cases.
 > 
 > This really needs to be fixed, it's been broke at least as far back as 
 > FC1.

As I detailed in a mail last week, there are so many variables its
hard to nail this down.

		Dave




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