Live CD install fails to detect CD/DVD

[hooksp]

I'm attempting to install 11.1 from LiveCD. The install only gets as far as the opensuse 11.1 screen right after the bootscreen. Things just sort of hang there for about 10 minutes or so and then the system reboots. Since the CD is still in the drive the opensuse boot screen comes up again and the process repeats until I remove the CD and reboot to Windows XP, which is what normally runs on this system.

After staring at the green screen during the 10 minute interval and wondering what was wrong I discovered pressing the escape key suspends the green graphic screen and shows detailed status messages. The last messages to appear are as follows:

-----> probing module pata_via {pauses here for ~10 min}
-----> probing module uhci - hcd
-----> Failed to detect CD/DVD or USB drive!
-----> reboot Exception: error console at Alt - F3/F4
-----> reboot Exception: reboot in 120 sec {which it does}

Choosing the check media option from the bootscreen yields about the same set of messages.

If the CD drive really was bad I would not have gotten this far. Windows diagnostics says the CD drive is functioning normally. And since I have used the drive under Windows I believe it is functioning normally.

Other details:

PC is a HP Pavilion circa 2002.
The CD drive is a Samsung CD-R/RW SW-224B.
Download came from opensuse.org. Checksum says it's good.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to proceed from here?

[TaraIkeda]

It could be a bad burn, try burning the iso at a slower speed.
What software on XP are you using for your burning?

[hooksp]

I used a product called InfraRecorder to burn the image. I had never used it before. The first CD was burned at full speed. The second at 6X. Same result with both.

Thx.

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

Did you check the iso image if it has been correctly downloaded?

[hooksp]

I used the md5 check sum to verify that the image was good.

[BenderBendingRodriguez]

That is rather weird as it booted off the cd right ?? Have you tried some of the "non standard" kernel options?

[brunomcl]

I had this problem once with OS 10.0 or 10.2, not sure which.

If memory serves, the solution was to disable acpi (or apic) during install, with options acpi=no (or noapic). Check these options.

After install the acpi functions worked OK.

[TaraIkeda]

It might have been a bad download too, its really hard to tell

[hooksp]

After downloading twice and verifying the image successfully I don't think this is a download problem. Burning the CD may be another matter.

Since I burned the CD twice and got the same error in the same place twice I think it highly unlikely that the CD volume is faulty.

I checked the supported hardware information and saw nothing on this particular model of CD drive. As a last resort I may try another device, like a flashdrive.

[hooksp]

I am new to Linux and am not familiar with the kernal options. A pointer to info or brief explanation would help. Thanks.