Problems with medium check for FC2 despiteof properchecksum!HELP

[Rick Stevens]

Mark wrote:
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>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com 
>>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Rick Stevens
>>Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 1:46 PM
>>To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>>Subject: Re: Problems with medium check for FC2 despiteof 
>>properchecksum!HELP
>>
>>
>>Why don't you install using the drive that passed the media check?
> 
> Because I have too many machines I want to install this one to take the
> drive and open all the boxes to plug it in and install off of it.
> 
> 
>>Have you changed blank media vendors?  Some drives may have trouble
>>reading different color media (older drives will have trouble reading
>>darker media due to the wavelength of the laser used in the drive).
> 
> No, same big spindle that never had problems before

Hmmmm...

> 
> 
>>>Is there some other option besides the "ide=nodma" that 
>>
>>might help fixing
>>
>>>this problem and passing the check. I have done this so 
>>
>>often before and
>>
>>>never had a problem! Are these machines going crazy??? (OK, stupid
>>>question...)
>>
>>If it's an SMP machine, you might try "noapic".  Also keep in 
>>mind that
>>this is a 2.6 kernel, which is radically different from a 2.4 kernel.
>>Also do a memcheck--you'd be surprised what you might find.
> 
> 
> Well, the machines are not running any OS, so I can not run anything at the
> moment. The same machines have installed the FC1 disks without problems...

Boot the first FC1 or FC2 CD and run the memcheck.  And try the "noapic"
option if they're SMP (some UP machines benefit from it, too).
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