I tried to boot the installCD. But while looking for the cdrom it breaks. In BusyBox I can mount the drive: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /media/cdrom -o ro Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot 2. choose keymap 3. Message: No bootable medium found. Expected Results: It should boot correctly.
Does it list /dev/hda as one of the devices that it tries to mount?
(In reply to comment #1) > Does it list /dev/hda as one of the devices that it tries to mount? > Yes it's listed. But the cd drive only blinks like a disco.
Then it's unlikely that it's a problem with the LiveCD, since it *is* finding the drive. Please verify the image you burned against the ISO and possibly try re-burning the image.
Already verified the cd. I tested on another worksation. Works fine. Also the cd-drive is tested. I can boot an ubuntu livecd.
I have the same problem on my Dell Inspiron 1420 (chipset Intel ICH8M, drive TSSTCorp DVD+RW): I can also mount the CD, but ONLY when I explicitly specify the filesystem type (iso9660) - but sometimes (one per 10 times or so) I get "Invalid argument". When it's not specified (=auto), mount runs about 25 seconds and then says "invalid argument" and I can see "UDF-fs: No VRS found" in dmesg (does it try only UDF?). This is for Gentoo AMD64 so, the bug is architecture-independent. And a shame for me: I've had this bug from Gentoo 2006.1 and forgot to file it :( [I installed Gentoo by writing the ISO on USB stick :)]
Created attachment 159980 [details] lspci output I attached lspci output. It might be useful.
It sounds a bit like the optical drives that Dell uses just suck. Not much we can do about that.
But I can mount this CD flawlessly after I install Gentoo... it works on other systems too - I only had problems with Gentoo LiveCD.
Thanks for the usb hint ;-) Seems the problem is fixed on livecd-i686-installer-2008.0-r1.iso Pawel Drewniak can you confirm it too?
Yes, it works when using LiveCD. Additionally, I noticed that it tries to mount /dev/sr0 whilst MinimalCD mounts /dev/hda - maybe different modules are loaded?