Ubuntu
debian-installer package

  1. Bug #360460
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 360460

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yk4ever (yk4ever) wrote :

Got the same deadlock yesterday - had 8.10 and 9.04 alternate cds, both failed the same way. NEC DVD-RW, Gigabyte motherboard for Core2Duo (can't remember model). Worse yet, installer has already cleaned existing Mandriva partition and destroyed Grub data, thus making Windows unavailable (yes, I had dual-boot).

But I managed to accidentally find a solution. I did two things:

1. Disabled, rebooted and re-enabled EIDE for DVD drive's IDE channel (using BIOS setup).

2. Booted from Mandriva Live CD, trying to find a solution in the internet.

But, after rebooting once more, Ubuntu CD mysteriously worked on its own!

I believe it's somehow connected to BIOS IDE detection.