F8 reboots with CD/DVD disc in drive.

Stewart Williams lists at pinkyboots.co.uk
Tue Jan 8 19:06:45 UTC 2008


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 22:01:24 +0000
> Stewart Williams <lists at pinkyboots.co.uk> 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).
>>     
>
> Bizarre, really bizarre - it isn't often I get a report which is entirely
> unique but you've managed it - well unless you are using the Nvidia
> binary drivers for 3D on Nvidia cards ?
>
> Can you tell me what SATA controller you have and what the rest of the
> system is (lspci -vvxx would be good). It would be best if you opened a
> bug in bugzilla.redhat.com and let me know its number. I can take it from
> there.
>
> Other useful information would be the boot messages ("dmesg") when it
> boots up without rebooting.
>
> Alan
>
>   

Hi Alan (and list)

No, I am not using the Nvidia binary drivers, just the 'nv' module.

I have opened a bug in bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428023

and attached the requested outputs.

Many thanks.

Stewart




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