checking sh1asum of Fedora Core 6 Installation DVD without boot

[Paul Howarth]

Tim wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:50 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Your file may have extra bytes appended to the end of it because the 
>> kernel does not detect the end of the written data (this is what
>> causes mediacheck errors in the first place). This extra data causes
>> the checksum to be calculated incorrectly
> 
> That's the second fault related to checking install discs that ought to
> get fixed, rather than worked around.  Hasn't anybody worked out why it
> doesn't do it correctly?

It's the same fault, namely the kernel returning too much data on some 
hardware. If it was an easy fix, I'm sure it would have been done by now.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186512

Paul.