Booting from DVD problem: isolinux: Disk error 80

This is often a difficult error to troubleshoot. It can be DVD it can be drive, it can be controller (or connection) problem. If you browse Google for this search string you will find all king of weird stories.

The key here is isolate the real culprit. The first hypothesis that needs to be testing is that the disk is bad.

• If this is USB drive, one way to check this is to connect drive to PC instead of server and see if this DVD can boot Linux.
• If this is an internal drive, you better try to boot from other drive (say USB drive or virtual drive provided by ILO or DRAC) and after installing OS burn the dirsk directly in the drive at low speed (4x) and repeat the experiment. If it will fail to boot from DVD that it is just burned, that is is more plausible that the problem is with the drive then with the media.
• You can try to vary media. Subjectively I grade Sony DVD+R (Sony DVD+R) as the best but recently quality deteriorated. The old, good are made by daxon are labeled as Sony D21 while the one that are made by Ritek are labeled as Ritek F 16-01.  But those who work with DVDs all the time observed wide variance in quality, even from the same vendor. My advice is to buy smaller stacks. Bigger stacks are cheaper, but if you get a bad stack, you lose more money. Recordable drives and discs are similar to people in terms of compatibility. By that I mean that one type of disc may be in true love with a certain drive, but absolutely loathe another. Even if you've had great success with a certain brand of discs, you may not have the same success if you change drives. Install DVD Identifier

Notes:

• If you have ILO or DRAC on the server then you can boot from a virtual drive and install the OS even without functional DVD drive.
• In many cases this problematic drive can be mounted and reads disk OK, the problem is just that it is unable to boot linux from it.
• Get Enterprise media pack with DVDs from the vendor to have baseline for the test. It might be that the burner on your PC is not very compatible with the DVD drive on the server
• Id you server is at remote datacenter, get a couple of pictures of the drive or get camera installed from a laptop to view the "whole picture". That helps to understand the situation. In one case I though that this is a build-in drive, while it was a USB drive connected to the blade.
• Can you boot another ISO and go into 'linux rescue' mode and run "lspci -vv"?
• Are you installing the correct architecture type?
• Have you attempted different version of Linux. For example Oracle Linux 6 instead of Red Hat Linux 6.

General troubleshooting process:

• 1. If this is a USB drive detach the drive from the blade or server

• 2. Attach it to UCB port on your PC

• 3. Put a blank DVD in the drive and burn the Oracle image using low speed (no more then 4x) in Roxio

• 4. Try to boot your PC from the drive and if it boots verify the DVD

• 5. Attach the DVD drive with the disk back to blade and call me so that I can run another test.

NEWS CONTENTS

• 20110418 : Oracle Linux 5.6 DVD cant be booted on HP blade ProLiant BL460c G7 ( Apr 18, 2011 )
• 20110418 : Problematic drive is external USB powered optical drive connected to the blade via the dongle that comes with each blade The DVD drive part number is 601223-001 (aka VV827AA#ABB) ( )
• 20110412 : New HP External USB DVD Drive 8x VV827AA 601223-001 eBay ( New HP External USB DVD Drive 8x VV827AA 601223-001 eBay, Apr 12, 2011 )
• 20110412 : Re isolinux Disk error ( Re isolinux Disk error, )
• 20110412 : Testing with Red Hat had shown that the same problem exists ( Apr 12, 2011 )

Old News ;-)

[Apr 18, 2011] Oracle Linux 5.6 DVD can't be booted on HP blade ProLiant BL460c G7

The drive that was OK to boot from instead of 601223-001

> HP External USB Drive CD/DVD R/RW

> Model: HSTNN-PD06-91

> HP PN: 5118819-001 Rev. B

> H/W: 01.01 F/W: RH61

> LightScribe, RW DVD+R DL, Compact Disc ReWritable, DVD Multi Recorder

c01726620

Also known as USB-DVD-722

Problematic drive is external USB powered optical drive connected to the blade via the dongle that comes with each blade The DVD drive part number is 601223-001 (aka VV827AA#ABB)

HP External USB DVD RW Drive (VV827AA) specifications - HP Home & Home Office Products

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Re isolinux Disk error

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 02:18:48PM -0700, Stephen Mah wrote:

> when I boot from this CD, I get:
> isolinux: Disk error 04, AX = 4200, drive 82
>
> Boot failed: press a key to retry...
>
> For some reason, I can't create a bootable CD anymore. I have't changed
> much besides, using buildinstall to customized this CD. I was able to
> build bootable CDs before without any problems.

Have you tried to boot the CD image with VMware or Bochs? All occasions
I had this error appeared to be speed incompatibilities between drive and
CD media (I have spent *many* hours to find this non-existing problem too),
while the CD was perfectly mountable etc., but was just not bootable (on
most systems).

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[Apr 12, 2011] Testing with Red Hat had shown that the same problem exists

This opens the opportunity to work with Red Hat

isolinux: disk error 80, ax = 4217, drive 9f

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