Installation report, my new laptop

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:13:55PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> <quote who="Jeff Waugh">
> > The last thing was "Reading all physical volumes.  This may take a
> > while..." after a couple of floppy.ko loading errors. I'll re-run again,
> > and watch the log when the initial CD-ROM failure happens - I guess that's
> > the root of the problem.
> 
> Hrm. When the first "Detect and mount CD-ROM" failure happens:
> 
>  * cdrom-detect searching for ubuntu installation media...
>  * klogd loading the iso9660 extensions
>  * cdrom-detect detected cd 'ubuntu 4.10...'
>  * main-menu process:1814 operation not supported on scsi disks
>  * main-menu process:1814 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0:
>  * main-menu warning cdrom-detect failed with error code 22
> 
> So, is this related to the SCSI issues?

I have a strong hunch that it's related to hdparm.  Edit
/var/lib/dpkg/info/cdrom-detect.postinst, comment out the hdparm stuff, and
retry.

-- 
 - mdz