F11 dvd media errors

Andre Robatino andre at bwh.harvard.edu
Tue Jun 9 21:41:20 UTC 2009


On 06/09/2009 05:27 PM, Joe Smith wrote:
> I'm having no luck getting the F11 dvd media to pass the initial media
> check.
> 
> Has anyone had any luck with this?
> 
> Downloaded Fedora-11-i386-DVD.iso using the fedoraproject.org torrent.
> 
> The disk image passed the sha256sum check. Burning to dvd+r gave
> no errors.
> 
> Booting the F11 dvd and running the media check failed twice on the
> first disk I made, and again after burning and booting a new copy.
> 
> Running the F11 media check on my F10 dvd was successful.
> 
> Booting the F10 dvd and running the media check on the F11 dvd gave this
> error:
> 
>> Unable to read the disc checksum from the primary volume descriptor.
>> This probably means the disc was created without adding the checksum.
> 
> It hardly seems possible that the F11 dvd image is borked, but that's
> what it looks like.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Try using the handy rawread script at

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/coasterless.htm

to read and verify the image directly off the disc, like this:

rawread /dev/dvd | sha256sum

after burning it.  I always do this after burning a disc.


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