F8 reboots with CD/DVD disc in drive.

[Stewart Williams]

Stewart Williams wrote:
> I have installed Fedora 8 on my PC, which works fine, however if a 
> disc is present in my DVD-RW drive when booting, the system boots just 
> before GDM loads.
>
> If I boot with no disc in the drive all is ok, but if I then load a 
> disc, the system freezes (in X) and reboots (in console runlevel 3).
>
> I have also updated all packages and tried all installed kernels, with 
> no luck.
>
> $ dmesg | less
>
> ...
>
> ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300)
> ata1.00: ATAPI: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H66N, CB00, max UDMA/100
> ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
> ata1: bounce limit 0xFFFFFFFF, segment boundary 0xFFFF, hw segs 127
>
> ...
>
> scsi 0:0:0:0: CD-ROM            HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H66N  CB00 PQ: 0 
> ANSI: 5
>
> ...
>
> The drive is actually a SATA connection.
>
> Any ideas where to start looking as I cannot find anyhting in my log 
> files?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stewart
>
I have since found out that HAL is the problem. If I stop the daemon 
loading at boot, it's fine until I start hald.

I still don't know why this is happening though.