From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>
Subject: Re: KVM-74: HELP PLEASE - cannot boot from cdrom for recovery
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:25:05 +0200
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Gerry Reno schrieb:

>> What does:
>>
>> md5sum /dev/sr0
>>
>> output?
>>
>>
> DVD is Fedora 10 DVD (i386)
> 
> Four cases:
> 
> # desktop user; DVD unmounted
> $ md5sum /dev/sr0
> md5sum: /dev/sr0: Input/output error
> 
> # desktop user; DVD mounted
> $ md5sum /dev/sr0
> ff311b322c894aabc4361c4e270f5a3f  /dev/sr0

Download the iso file to your disk and point kvm there.

It's the easiest to do; your problem is not really kvm-specific.


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Tomasz Chmielewski
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