[nmglug] Help my bro'

[Bin Hu]

I don't know why the optical driver does not recognize the blank  
disks. I would recommend to upgrade to the latest firmware of the  
optical driver and check the supported disk types. Also I heard some  
optical driver cannot recognize blank disks from certain brands.

Bin

On Jan 21, 2010, at 4:34 PM, BrianO'Keefe wrote:

> Thanks Bin. I forwarded your response to him. Any idea of why the  
> box crashes when a blank cd/dvd is inserted into the drive?
>
> Brian
>
> Bin Hu wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I assume that your brother's computer's booting  into memory test is
>> caused by incorrect boot up configuration instead of hardware issue.
>> If that is the case,  your brother might want to check the boot
>> sequence setting in the BIOS configuration during computer start up
>> and give priority to CD-ROM so that he can boot from a live cd. If
>> this doesn't help, then he may try boot from a flash driver or a
>> network boot server. After boot up into linux, he should then edit  
>> the
>> boot menu in /boot/grub/menu.lst, assuming he is using GRUB instead  
>> of
>> LILO.
>>
>> I hope this helps.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Bin
>>
>> On 1/21/10, BrianO'Keefe <okeefe at cybermesa.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm writing for my brother who was running Karmic on a Microtel  
>>> desktop.
>>> He'd been having trouble with blank cds (data cds and dvds didn't  
>>> cause
>>> this problem) crashing his box so he uninstalled and then  
>>> installed udev
>>> package.
>>> Now when he tries to boot the box goes into a memory test and then
>>> reboots into the memory test over and over. He tried to check the
>>> installed kernels to choose one that might boot but there are none
>>> listed (he pressed "esc" to see the list-it's empty).
>>> He tried booting from a live cd and that won't work either. The cd  
>>> drive
>>> spins but nothing else.
>>> Any ideas? guidance?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Brian
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