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.
