installation freeze

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 05:13:30AM -0500, u_d wrote:

> Hi I have already posted this in installation help but have had no
> replies so I thought it might get more looks here. I hope thats
> alright. Anyway Ive been trying to get Ubuntu on my Dell Latitude C600
> laptop but it keeps freezing to a blue screen. It seems to be during
> the install just after you select the country info where it is
> detecting hardware to find cd-rom that the screen seems to freeze. This
> might help for someone trying to help me with this problem.
> 
> In one console I get:
> (none) user.notice cdrom-detect: Searching for ubuntu installation
> media
> (It seems to stop just after that message.)
> 
> In another console:
> insmod /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-2-386/kernel/fs/isofs/isofs.ko
> (It freezes after that message to)
> 
> Also the cd-rom starts and then stop and repeats doing this with
> messages from syslog:
> syslog.info klogd: ide-cd: cmd 0x28 timed out
> syslog.info klogd: hdc: DMA interrupt recovery
> syslog.info klogd: hdc: lost interrupt
> 
> I have also installed slackware on it quickly to see if its not the
> cd-rom at fault and I had no problems.

Which CD did you download?  DMA is being enabled on your CD-ROM, but the
release CD explicitly disables this by default (because of problems like
this).

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 - mdz