General :: DVD-burner Disappears When Using Grub
Dec 4, 2010
This is a rather annoying problem I have with Linux on my laptop. Whenever I install any Linux distro that relies on grub (which is about 99 % apparently) it will mess up my DVD-drive and the drive will not be recognized after booting, no matter the OS (Ubunntu, Arch, Windows Vista or 7). I know the problem has nothing to do the DVD-drive itself, because I bought a new one a few months ago. I am also sure that grub is messing the drive up, because I have tried to use LILO, which worked fine (except for horrible boot times.)
This problem have persisted through about 3-4 years and it is a pretty bad show stopper whenever I want to work with Linux. I had hoped it would get fixed over time, but no one seems to have the exact problem I have. The drive is connected with an IDE connection. Update: The old drive was a Toshiba Samsung SN-S082. I don't know the model number of the new one, but it is HP (I think). Things I have tried to fix it: Mess about with some BIOS settings like enabling AHCI and change some IDE settings. Installing a different boot loader DOES fix the problem but I would like to use grub.
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Jun 12, 2010
I have installed Windows 7 and Debian in my Laptop. The problem is that when I get to the Grub Menu, If I select Windows 7,and then I turn off my pc, Grub dissapears and I can't no longer enter any OS. Every time this happens I have to re-install the Grub through a live CD. (This doesn't happen if I use Debian, but sometimes I must enter Windows to play games or anything like that hehe)
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Oct 1, 2010
Another step before turning to Linux. My DVD/CD burner is not supported by Linux. Can someone suggest a cheap burner that works well in Linux. My travails thru Newegg and other locales has borne no fruit.
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Jan 20, 2010
i want to know good cd/dvd burner that support windows also..I want to mean that I can use that cd/dvd for nero also...i want to know a good photo editor/viewer also..i am using opensuse 11.1.
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Mar 10, 2011
I am using kubuntu 10.04. The printer icon will appear and disappear went into /ect/cups/printers.conf and JobSheets none none is there turned cups on and off uninstalled and reinstalled cups. I am using a hp deskjet 1000 series j110a.
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May 18, 2011
I've been using Ubuntu 10.04 for almost a year now...and I'm still an ignorant noob! (....a testament to the simplicity of modern Linux- it's made me lazy) I downloaded a driver for my new scanner- see here: [URL] I extracted the tar.gz, and double clicked the "install.sh." and got it to run in terminal.....then selected my options (i.e. "stand alone" and "Ubuntu"....but instead of the terminal showing that the driver was installed or anything, the terminal just disappears!
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Jul 16, 2011
I've built a computer based on a Gigabyte GA-H67M-UD2H-B3 motherboard that I intent to use as a home server. It runs headless with a minimal installation of Debian Wheezy on an 8GB Sandisk Cruizer Blade. Everything seems to be working well, most of the problems I had had been dealt with, most of the programs I wanted had been installed and configured, but there's one major problem I've no idea how to solve: on random intervals it seems that the system can no longer see the memory stick.
It could happen 30 minutes after a reboot or ten day later. It could happen while I'm connected using SSH to the server or away. It could happen when it's busy doing something or just idling. I could find no commonality. I've tried a different memory stick (also Cruizer Blade), a different USB port, a more stable OS (Debian Squeeze), none helped. The symptoms: everything already loaded in memory works. The webserver, for example, still accepts connections on port 80. However, nothing can be read from or written to the memory stick, so any webpage on the local server I try to access returns a 404 error. No new SSH connections can be made because sshd can't verify the credentials, existing connections remains active but I'm unable to anything useful with those, as no command can be found. No logs are written, naturally. Removing and reinserting the memory stick had no effect. The only thing I can to is to manually power cycle the computer.
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Dec 11, 2010
I have ubuntu desktop version installed on my PC and it's the only OS on the machine. I has been working fine. Since I recently updated all the software packages everything on my desktop disappears. I can call up the right-click menu, and create files and folders via it. I can turn on and off the computer by pressing the power button. The OS is reacting to my action but the task bar and menu on top and bottom are gone.
Has anybody seen this? Is there anything I can do to roll the system to back to the previous normal state? P.S. I can use command line.
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Jul 22, 2011
I have very small ARM computer with Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) running as a backup and media server for my house. I have attached a new "WD My Passport" 750GB USB drive to it. The drive is recognized and I can mount it and read/write files fine. After several minutes, the drive goes to sleep, even if I was in the middle of writing a backup to it. I can force it to start again with sdparm, but it needs to not shut itself down while it's being written to in the first place. I have tried this command to disable the standby state but it doesn't work:
root@Plug:~# sdparm --clear STANDBY -6 /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb: WD My Passport 0730 1008
change_mode_page: failed setting page: Power condition
I have also been told to change /sys/block/sdb/device/allow_restart from 0 to 1, but no such file exists and one cannot be written there. The hardware itself is fine, if I plug it into a Windows computer, it will not sleep while in use.
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Oct 25, 2010
I call my script with ./script -e arg2. However, $@ only shows me arg2. Surprisingly, if I use ./script -s arg2, $@ shows me both arguments. What's going on?
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Nov 20, 2010
my Setup is Fedora 14 x64 + radeon hd 4830 i've downloaded .run package from ati site with latest driver for x64 systems. installed it, but didn't edited grub.conf becouse i didn't understood anything there (probably didn't spent enough time to get things understand) Now i've lost possibility to enter my Fedora system. during boot it lost it's modern blue boot screen (with filling drop), it was replaced by standard old boot screen with triple-color stripe. after this boot screen monitor start blinking going on and off. and on last step i'm getting "Fedora 14 boot bla bla bla something" on screen. nothing works except Ctrl+Alt+Delete. system reboots showing successful daemons shutting sequence. How can i edit grub menu from initial grub screen is it possible to it's own 'e' option or 'c' from grub command line?
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Nov 29, 2010
i just recently installed a hp DVD writer dvd200i in my computer and it wont read or write DVDs, yet it reads and writes cds perfectly.I actually think its a driver issue my computer is ide and 4 yrs old if that helps any with Linux Mint
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Dec 11, 2009
i'm trying to burn an iso file to a CD but brasero seems don't work. what else is there that will work?
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Aug 1, 2010
once I get to the terminal command window, how do I start the dvd iso burner? standard ubuntu 10.04 x64 client install.
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Sep 15, 2010
It's been a while since I hosed my system, and I finally stopped procrastinating to backup, format, and reinstall. The latest disc I have available is 9.10, and getting new ones is a feat now that Canonical won't mail them to me. So I installed 9.10 and immediately upgraded to 10.04; somewhere in there it asked me where to installed GRUB and I told it sda1 but not sda, which was apparently a mistake.
I got an error about "grub_puts_" being undefined and used this guide per a relevant thread. I rebooted and got through GRUB, but now all that comes up is the purple background and my cursor; the mouse doesn't move, not that there's anything for it to click anyway. I went on #ubuntu IRC and was advised to do a clean install rather than an upgrade.
Of course I can just stay with 9.10 but would prefer the latest (of course it's about to be obsolete anyway...). I have also heard that it's possible to install to a USB drive; I'm guessing that likewise requires a CD? I guess what I'm wondering is whether I can use a 9.10 install to download and install 10.04 directly to a different device? Finding someone who has a CD burner is a real hassle.
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Jan 28, 2011
I am trying to burn an .iso but Ubuntu won't see my burner at all.. Newb to ubuntu, I am on 10.10.
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Jul 3, 2011
I am looking for a Iso CD Burner Program that runs on Ubuntu.
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Jul 17, 2011
I just installed Ubuntu on my newly built computer from a USB drive. I have tried to install a LG DVD burner but when I insert media the computer does not recognize my player.
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Jan 10, 2010
I'd like to replace my HP CD-Writer+ 8290 external CD burner. It works fine with Windows but is flaky in working with Linux (across multiple distros).I'm interested in buying an external DVD burner. If you use an external DVD burner with Puppy Linux or any other Linux distro, what are you using?Is there a list of external DVD burners that work with Linux?
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Jan 3, 2011
I am looking for a full featured CD/DVD, Image burning program. I have mostly used simple programs but is there one somebody would recommend that is full featured and/or opensource/Just Free.
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Feb 26, 2010
I just got a new DVD burner and decided to get a cheapest burner (an LG SATA burner) I did not have much preferences on either IDE or SATA so I just got a serial ATA. K3B burns DVD's just fine, but the speed is pegged at 1x even though writing speed specified was 8x. Device buffer is fluctuating from 0 to 80% all the time, which seems to suggest that the data is not being fed into the drive at good sustained rate to write faster.
I tried:
hdparm -d /dev/sr0
which I got:
/dev/sr0:
HDIO_GET_DMA failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device
doing:
hdparm /dev/sr0
[Code]....
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Feb 2, 2011
OpenSUSE 11.3, Brasero 2.30.1 Brasero can't detect dvd-burner. Dialogs, that should allow burner-device selection is grayed out and contain only one option "No disc available". The device itself is known to be working. How to fix this?
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May 4, 2010
good DVD burner in ubuntu 9.10
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Dec 10, 2010
I am a complete noob when it comes to ubuntu. I installed it ater advice from a friend that it is better than MACos. So far I am loving it, but i cannot burn cds/dvds. When i try to, i get the ollowing error:
Session error : SCSI error on write(128,16): See MMC specs: Sense Key 3 "Medium error", ASC 10 ASCQ 00 (brasero_burn_record brasero-burn.c:2862) i have almost no computing skills at all, that would alow me to get better and also be able to burn a cd. Using ubuntu newest version, and brasero same foe burning.
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May 13, 2011
Finally got around to buying a DVD player so i put 3 old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns on one dvd and it plays fine on the computer. However , when played on the tv-dvd player only one movie ( the last one on the dvd ) would play . I did not use a 3rd party converter app as the dvd player advertised that it would play standard avi movies. I burned with Brassero and noted that half the dvd was still blank if that's relative .
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Apr 12, 2011
I've run into a problem when i put dvd's in it don't see them when i put cd's in it pick them right up?I have added my self to groups audio cdrom disks and a few others but no luck..I even changed out my dvd burner thinking it was messed up and the new one does the same.I'm thinking it something to do with the permission but i might be wrong or maybe something to do with permission for a dvd software dvdrw tools or something i don't know but i'm at a wits end.
When i put in a cd and goto yast>check media its all good but a dvd it say no media found.
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Jul 22, 2009
burning dvds or cds was always a bit tricky on my computer. I don't know why, but when i tried to burn a dvd+/-r it always ended in failure. but when i burned a dvd+/-rw before i was able to burn normal dvds and cds. i never knew why i needed this trick but it worked fine, so i had no problems with that.But now my burner doesn't recognize dvd-rws anymore and that's a big problem!! it recognizes all blank dvd-r i have, but when i try to burn to them they fail. so i need to recognize my dvd-rws!!
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May 16, 2009
I installed LG GH22NP20 Internal Super Multi DVD Rewrite Drive to use with MythTV. I have tried Knoppmyth and mythbuntu. It can read CDs but won't read DVD's. I haven't tried burning anything yet. Sometimes when I click the eject button on the burner case, the following error is displayed:
failed to eject "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_RAM_GH22NP20 is not a volume or drive"
I'm new to Linux, but it looks like there is a simple configuration that has to be done. I tried using MPlayer movie player and VLC media player but to no avail.
Kernel:
2.6.28-11-generic
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Mar 2, 2010
I'm in doubt whether my dvd burner is working properly. Do you know of a free of charge program to test it fully?
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Nov 28, 2010
my DVD Burner is a MATSHITA BD-CMB UJ-120 i'm running DEBIAN SQUEEZE.In the past using Kubuntu (until 9.10) it burned DVD without problems other info are in the k3b debug output..I'm using VERBATIM DVD+R i don't know what to do.
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