Boot problem with CDrom

**Skythra** · 06-23-2004

The problem is that when i try and boot from the mandrake 10 cdrom, for some reason it fails. I have no idea why this is... but I thought perhaps i could create a floppy that told the computer to boot the file in the cd rom...

Im asking really if first this is possible, and if so, how...

Else, or better yet, can i just install mandrake 10 without booting off it?

And the bios is set to boot from cd rom first. Secondly the HDD. For some reason i cant have CD rom, A: then HDD... but it should be fine as just CDrom.. i would think.

Thanks!

**Skythra** · 06-23-2004

After searching around some more, i came across the idea that you can do a boot off the second cd rom. So i did that!

However that didnt get far, it complained about the disk not being a install disk, so i said retry with another disk.

Could not uncompress second stage ramdisk. This is probably an hardware error caused while reading the data. (This may be caused by a hardware failure or a Linux kernel bug)

So then i alt-f4 to see a kernel msg

Code:

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<6>attempt to access beyond end of device
<6>hda&#58; rw=0, want=1354188, limit 875216
<3>Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 338546
<6>attempt to access beyond end of device
<6>hda&#58; rw=0, want=1354192, limit 875216
<3>Buffer I/O error on device hda, logical block 3338547
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And so on and probably for some time before that.

The last couple of messages in the log are:

Code:

found a Mandrake Linux CDROM, good news!
Total memory 448Mbytes
trying to load tmp/image/Mandrake/base/mdkinst_stage2.bz2 as a ramdisk
reading compressed ramdisk&#58; IO_ERROR
unsetting automatic

**Dolda2000** · 06-23-2004

It would seem that your CDs have gotten corrupted somehow.

**Skythra** · 06-23-2004

the md5sum checks out just fine...

I was thinking perhaps my age old cdrw wasnt working =p

i could try and redownload the first iso..

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