On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 18:24 -0500, David Crim wrote:
On Apr 8, 2005 3:31 PM, Kenneth Kalmer kenneth.kalmer@gmail.com wrote:
Dear community
I've just noticed that the CentOS 4.0 ISO's I downloaded from ftp.sunsite.org.uk fails the media check on installation. All four fail. The md5 checks pass and I've done 5 full installations from the set of failed cd's and no problems what so ever. I never bothered to do the media check untill a friend asked me what it does...
The installation works, wonder what the problem could be? Any suggestions or should I provide more information to help fix this if it might be a bug?
This is becoming a FAQ. It is not just a CentOS problem. It also happens to the recent Fedora and RedHat releases.
If you are burning the disks with cdrecord, try adding the -pad option to your command line.
You can also try using the ide=nodma on the installation boot prompt:
linux ide=nodma
Regards,
Dave
I also want to point out that this only happens with certain hardware. This is caused by a problem in the way mkisofs and cdrecord work together and even though the CD fails media check, it is still good.
If you follow this thread from start to finish, you will see how I am going to fix this with respin 1 of CentOS-4 by changing the way we make the ISO files:
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003347.html
Thanks, Johnny Hughes