Open Source Technical Information: The installer's media check says all my CDs are bad!

Friday 28 October 2011

The installer's media check says all my CDs are bad!

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There is a bug in the kernel which causes the media check to say some CDs are bad when they are not, on some systems. To do a successful media check, do the following:
  1. At the installer prompt, type:
    linux mediacheck ide=nodma
  2. Run the media check on your CDs/DVD.
  3. Reboot, and run the installer normally.
Note that sometimes mediacheck will report that only some CDs are bad, but this will still fix that problem. (Thanks to Tony Nelson for reminding me of that!)

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