2010 Install USB CD Fails - Unhandled Sense Code

[adam jvok]

Downloaded 2010 (One).
Verified the checksum.
Burned to CD.
The target machine is a laptop with no CD of its own.
I have a USB/IDE converter and an old internal IDE CD drive (nolonger internal to anything!).
I connect the CD drive via the laptop's USB port.
 
I get the splash screen, then press ESC to see whats going on:

.. Please wait detecting USB devices...
...
Uniform CD-ROM driver revision 3.20
...
[sr0:] unhandled sense code

Buffered I/O error on device  sr0

These messages then repeat until I give up and try again. Several times. All with the same result.

You might think that the IDE/USB/External CD are to blame but:
- I installed 2 previous versions of Mandriva on this laptop using the same method/adapter/CD drive.
- I just booted a SLAX (www.slax.org) cd on this same setup with no issues.

Any suggestions?

[adam jvok]

I also tested the CD on another machine that had an internal CD drive.
That worked fine. So the problem is not the CD itself.

Given that:
a) the laptop/CD drive/USB-IDE/adapter worked well with different boot CDs (including 2009.1 One - just tried that); and
b) the 2010 One CD works on another machine
It seems to me that the problem lies in the software on the 2010 One CD.
This was not an issue with 2009.

Anyone had success booting the 2010 One CD from a USB drive?

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:48 PM, adam jvok <ajvok1@...> wrote:

Downloaded 2010 (One).
Verified the checksum.
Burned to CD.
The target machine is a laptop with no CD of its own.
I have a USB/IDE converter and an old internal IDE CD drive (nolonger internal to anything!).
I connect the CD drive via the laptop's USB port.
 
I get the splash screen, then press ESC to see whats going on:

.. Please wait detecting USB devices...
...
Uniform CD-ROM driver revision 3.20
...
[sr0:] unhandled sense code

Buffered I/O error on device  sr0

These messages then repeat until I give up and try again. Several times. All with the same result.

You might think that the IDE/USB/External CD are to blame but:
- I installed 2 previous versions of Mandriva on this laptop using the same method/adapter/CD drive.
- I just booted a SLAX (www.slax.org) cd on this same setup with no issues.

Any suggestions?

[adam jvok]

Still no idea what's going on with this, but at least I have a work-around.
Hunting around, I came across "mandriva_seed.sh" and used it to make a USB stick into a 2010 One install system.
Very nice.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 7:29 AM, adam jvok <ajvok1@...> wrote:

I also tested the CD on another machine that had an internal CD drive.
That worked fine. So the problem is not the CD itself.

Given that:
a) the laptop/CD drive/USB-IDE/adapter worked well with different boot CDs (including 2009.1 One - just tried that); and
b) the 2010 One CD works on another machine
It seems to me that the problem lies in the software on the 2010 One CD.
This was not an issue with 2009.

Anyone had success booting the 2010 One CD from a USB drive?

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:48 PM, adam jvok <ajvok1@...> wrote:

Downloaded 2010 (One).
Verified the checksum.
Burned to CD.
The target machine is a laptop with no CD of its own.
I have a USB/IDE converter and an old internal IDE CD drive (nolonger internal to anything!).
I connect the CD drive via the laptop's USB port.
 
I get the splash screen, then press ESC to see whats going on:

.. Please wait detecting USB devices...
...
Uniform CD-ROM driver revision 3.20
...
[sr0:] unhandled sense code

Buffered I/O error on device  sr0

These messages then repeat until I give up and try again. Several times. All with the same result.

You might think that the IDE/USB/External CD are to blame but:
- I installed 2 previous versions of Mandriva on this laptop using the same method/adapter/CD drive.
- I just booted a SLAX (www.slax.org) cd on this same setup with no issues.

Any suggestions?