[xubuntu-users] 9.04 boot and install problems

[Nils Kassube]

David Duckslammer wrote:
> More info...  I just reinstalled again, but first I zeroed out the
> partition using dd just to see if it would report a disk error.  It
> didn't.  This time there were no pauses at startup, and not all of
> the error messages scrolled off the screen:
>
> [ timestamp] end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector #####
>
> Some of the sector numbers repeat as if it is doing retries.
>
> What is the sr0 device?  Google doesn't tell me much; it seems to
> turn up in all sorts of different types of error reports.

The sr0 device is your CD/DVD drive and it could be a problem with the 
medium or with the drive itself. Sorry, I have no idea how to further 
diagnose the problem.


Nils