[Nottingham] Odd thing with DVDs

[Simon Sleaford]

I would be inclined to try booting from a live USB distro, that way you
could free up the DVD drive from your underlying OS and see if the problem
lies with your hardware or your installation. WIth it working fine on a
Windows system, we know it isn't the disc itself. If you can test it and
see it working on a different Linux system you can get similar information
from dmesg, it may have been burned with different options that your kernel
doesn't support but could be added to resolve the problem.

Simon


On 27 March 2013 09:16, Jason Irwin <jasonirwin73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 26/03/13 23:35, Andy White wrote:
> > "busy inode"s suggests the kernel still thinks the media is mouned; are
> you
> > umounting first?
> I'm pressing the eject button on the front of the drive.  Surely that
> causes an unmount etc?
>
> I'd accidentally left the DVD in the drive overnight and when I booted
> this morning, the PC booted from the DVD no problem.
> When I insert the DVD into the booted PC - no dice.  So I think this is
> something software-y.  Just not sure what.
>
> J.
>
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