openSuse 13.1 RC-1 KDE Live DVD boots on only 2 of 3 machines

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Burned a DVD (with k3b at 4x) of the Live KDE version of oS 13.1 RC1 on a Toshiba notebook running 12.3. This disk boots and runs live just fine on a dual-core AMD home brew server. Oddly, the machine that burned the disk won’t read it–sounds like endless repeating read attempts on the DVD drive. The ISO check sum was good before burning and k3b verified the file after burning.

The third machine is an older HP desktop on which 13.1 behaves the same as 12.3: stops at the command line with no GUI or window interface. This third machine still runs 12.2.

I’m not sure if this is a bug, older hardware, or what. Insights gratefully received as I’d like to move all machines to 13.1 when released. Is there any additional info I could supply that would help the developers?

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Tell us more about each PC hardware. In particular, tell us about your video hardware on each PC.

Thank You,

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On 2013-10-28 02:36, konsultor wrote:
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> Burned a DVD (with k3b at 4x) of the Live KDE version of oS 13.1 RC1 on
> a Toshiba notebook running 12.3. This disk boots and runs live just
> fine on a dual-core AMD home brew server. Oddly, the machine that
> burned the disk won’t read it–sounds like endless repeating read
> attempts on the DVD drive. The ISO check sum was good before burning
> and k3b verified the file after burning.

It could be a marginally bad DVD. Those things fail easily. Why don’t
you try to use an USB stick instead?

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)

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Happy to provide (FYI: I have to retype the info as the YaST2 Hardware Information page doesn’t support select and copy; please excuse any typos).

The Toshiba notebook that won’t read the 13.1 disk (from YaST2 in 12.3): quad-core Intel CPU; Arrandale Integrated Graphics Controller, Class VGA, Dev IDs (spec) 130352 and 65606; Vendor Itel, ID 98438; Bus: PCI Screen resolution = 1366x768; driver = modprobe i915 *

The home-brew server that ran openSuse KDE Live (from YaST2 in 12.3); dual core AMD Athlon II: 1920x1080 (a TV); ATI VGA-compatible controller, Dev IDs (spec) 95779 and 104213; Vendor = ATI, subvendor = Micro-Star International ID=70754; Driver = modprobe radeon.

The HP s7520N Pavilion (from sysinfo:/ on 12.2, which I miss in 12.3) single core AMD Turion 64: ATI Radion Express 200 5954 PCIE; driver = R300 Gallium 8.0.4*

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Sounds like a marginal drive.

You don’t even get the menu right??

Or do you get past the menu to the install section and that is where it fails?

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On the HP the Live DVD stops at a command prompt.The only menu is the choice of LIVE vs INSTALL, etc.
The server runs OK; the notebook won’t read the disk it wrote. (I’m off to find a USB drive)
Is the BIOS of interest?

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It seems like we need to stay away from USB 3.0 ports for now.

Thank You,

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Update: made a bootable USP drive of 13.1 Live KDE. It runs on the Toshiba notebook. Looks like an iffy drive.
The HP Pavillion doesn’t seem to have an option in its (2006) BIOS to boot from the USB port, so no luck there.

>:)CONSPIRACY THEORY: the old [BIOS | OS] is slowing the 1.8 GHz CPU clock to 800 MHz so I’ll upgrade the firm | soft}ware or buy a new machine.

Thanks for the input. Consider this case closed.