Installation problems: I/O erro: dev sr0

r3b3l · 2015-04-07 14:47:18

Hello,

last week I wanted to reinstall Arch on my Laptop (Lenovo Ideapad G580). First I've downloaded the ISO and burned the Live CD.
After I choose 'Boot Arch Linux (x86_64)' I got this:

Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)... ok
early console in decompress_kernel

Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel.
:: running early hook [udev]
starting version 218
:: running hook [udev]
:: Triggering unevents...
error: /dev/sdb: No medium found
error: /dev/sdb: No medium found
[	10.004186] blk_update_request: I/O erro, dev sr0, sector 1226752
[	15.950463] blk_update_request: I/O erro, dev sr0, sector 1226752
[	15.950553] Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 153344, async page read
[	22.443844] blk_update_request: I/O erro, dev sr0, sector 1226752
[	28.330003] blk_update_request: I/O erro, dev sr0, sector 1226752
[	28.330094] Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 153344, async page read
:: running hook [memdisk]
:: running hook [archiso]
:: running hook [archiso_loop mnt]
:: running hook [archiso_pxe_common]
:: running hook [archiso_pxe_nbd]
:: running hook [archiso_pxe_http]
:: running hook [archiso_pxe_nfs]
:: Mounting '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201504' to '/run/archiso/bootmnt'
Waiting 30 seconds for device /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201504 ...
ERROR: '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201504' device did not show up after 30 seconds...
	Falling back to interactive prompt
	You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can't access tty; job contorl turned off
[rootfs /]#

I burned the CD two times and tried it, on a friends laptop. It worked. But my PC doesn't want to install it.
Now I have Lubuntu on my Laptop
Pls help

r3b3l

Last edited by jasonwryan (2015-04-07 17:04:40)

satanselbow · 2015-04-07 15:00:39

Did you check the hash sums of the Arch ISO?

How did you prepare / what medium did you use to install Lubuntu?

ewaller · 2015-04-07 15:06:04

I am a bit concerned about those I/O errors. You say the same CD works on your friends machine?
What media are you using? You might try a CD-R instead of a CD+R or a CD RW. Avoid DVD media all together.

Is booting from USB an option? Is booting from PXE (network boot) an option?

Last edited by ewaller (2015-04-07 15:06:16)

dice · 2015-04-07 15:49:43

There is a similar thread about this. (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1516893
I'm wondering if there is a wider problem to this. As the I/O errors appear on exactly the same sectors I doubt that two people have exactly the same CD or CD-Drive with exactly the same error. This would be rather unlikely.
Or is there another explanation for this?

r3b3l · 2015-04-07 16:28:15

Thank you for the answers. The hash sums are ok. I'd install Lubuntu from USB, but I didn't tried it with Arch, because I had a few Problems when I tried it the first time and so I installed it with the CD. The CD I used a year before (when it worked) and the CD I used this time are identical. The CD from the first install, doesn't work anymore, too >.<
I will try to install debian from another live cd. Only for a try.
After that, I will try to install from USB. Perhaps it will work.

satanselbow · 2015-04-07 17:21:55

r3b3l wrote:

I will try to install debian from another live cd. Only for a try.

Is this disk you will burn yourself or disc from the front of a magazine? (for example)

There are several possible scenarios going on which would be nice to resolve before it comes back to bite you later

1) CD drive faulty or failing
2) CD discs faulty, incompatible or inconsistent
3) 'Current Arch ISO is failing to write correctly on some hardware/software combinations... unlikely as the board is not flooded with the error you are reporting but not impossible...

Would be nice to know as the other post linked above left quite a few questions unresolved

chorlton · 2015-04-07 21:31:42

I'm having the same I/O Erro on exactly the same sector.

ISO md5sum was checked after download.
ISO was burned to a CD using Brasero
The disk is labeled ARCH_201504

Trying to install on a fairly standard HP laptop from the last 3 years.

So, looks like it could be option 3 in the previous post?

Last edited by chorlton (2015-04-07 21:34:09)

arco · 2015-04-07 23:00:34

I also had this I/O error yesterday. But for me it was sector 1227352

My steps were as follows:
1. Downloaded archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso
2. Verified MD5
3. Burned CD-R (with a verify after burning) selected x86_64 from the bootmenu and had these I/O errors on dev sr0.
4. Burned DVD-R and it worked fine.

dice · 2015-04-07 23:07:41

To those who have the problem: Did you also check the md5 of the burnt cd?

r3b3l · 2015-04-08 07:33:35

Thank you all for the answers and exspecially to arco. The burned DVD seems to work. I'll install it friday completely and give reply

satanselbow · 2015-04-08 07:38:28

arco wrote:

3. Burned CD-R (with a verify after burning) selected x86_64 from the bootmenu and had these I/O errors on dev sr0.
4. Burned DVD-R and it worked fine.

Which rather points the blame at the media/software/hardware/user not the ISO itself.

ewaller · 2015-04-13 18:10:31

Update: I encountered this myself this weekend. I obtained a new laptop with Window 8. After checking everything for proper operation, I downloaded and burned Arch to a CD-R from Windows 8 on my new machine. When I tried to install using that disk, I encountered the exact same problem described here. As a control, I tried a second disk. Same thing.

Went to my old machine running Linux. Downloaded and burned using Linux. Moved the disk to the new machine and it worked perfectly. Installed Arch on the new machine and then used the new machine to burn a disk using Arch Linux. The disk worked just fine.

Looks like a Windows bug. I'll not be filing a bug report with Redmond.

juego · 2015-04-13 19:32:55

Having the same error.

Downloaded the archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso via torrent. Checked the MD5 sum. "burned" it on a brand new blank USB with Unetbootin.
Have gone over the process of formatting the USB twice and "buring" the iso on it with unetbootin twice. Same error.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-04-13 19:52:17

juego wrote:

Having the same error.
Downloaded the archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso via torrent. Checked the MD5 sum. "burned" it on a brand new blank USB with Unetbootin.
Have gone over the process of formatting the USB twice and "buring" the iso on it with unetbootin twice. Same error.

Your problem is different: the OP is referring to a CD/DVD whilst your situation involves a USB stick.

Try transferring the ISO image using the `dd` command (as per the Beginner's Guide) rather than unetbootin
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … NU.2FLinux

If it still won't work you should open your own thread and link back to this one.

juego · 2015-04-13 22:28:57

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

juego wrote:
Having the same error.
Downloaded the archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso via torrent. Checked the MD5 sum. "burned" it on a brand new blank USB with Unetbootin.
Have gone over the process of formatting the USB twice and "buring" the iso on it with unetbootin twice. Same error.
Your problem is different: the OP is referring to a CD/DVD whilst your situation involves a USB stick.
Try transferring the ISO image using the `dd` command (as per the Beginner's Guide) rather than unetbootin
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/US … NU.2FLinux
If it still won't work you should open your own thread and link back to this one.

My bad. The `dd` command solved it. Thx and sorry for the trouble.

satanselbow · 2015-04-14 08:03:50

ewaller wrote:

Looks like a Windows bug. I'll not be filing a bug report with Redmond.

Not unless the ArchISO is created on a windows box???????? At least one of the posts above mentions burning with Brasero... which has always been pretty random IMHO...

ewaller · 2015-04-14 13:57:21

You are right. There were some postings to the mailing list about issues with Brasero as well. I don't understand what you mean by "Not unless the ArchISO is created on a windows box?" What I am saying is that when I downloaded the binary and burned it using Windows 8's intrinsic tools I encountered the problem. When I used wodim on the same computer and drive, I was able to burn a usable disk. My assumption is that I am not the only one who has tried to burn a disk using Windows -- most desktop and laptop Linux machines are born-again Windows boxes.

Last edited by ewaller (2015-04-14 16:53:20)

DanielH · 2015-04-14 14:24:43

I see the same CD errors trying to use archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso to reinstall Arch in an old P4 (Celeron) machine:

...
[ ...] blk_update_request: I/O erro, dev sr0, sector 1226752
[ ...] blk_update_request: I/O erro, dev sr0, sector 1226752
[ ...] Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 153344, async page read
...
ERROR: '/dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201504' device did not show up after 30 seconds...
Falling back to interactive prompt
You can try to fix the problem manually, log out when you are finished
sh: can't access tty; job contorl turned off
[rootfs /]#
....

MD5 and SHA1 sums checked.
ISO burned in two CDs at different speeds via Brasero under LMDE: unable to boot from both disks.

BTW: archlinux-2015.03.01-dual.iso works fine for me...
Booting from 2015.03.01-dual.iso, I'm able to arch-chroot in the previously installed Arch and perform commands as root (including full update).

Seemed to be a bug in archlinux-2015.04.01 ISO creation.

Any suggestion?
DanielH

P.S. forgive my bad english, I'm argentinian and only speak spanish.

DanielH · 2015-04-14 15:28:39

EDIT:

@ewaller: you're right!

It's a Brasero related bug
Using wodim (command line) to burn archlinux-2015.04.01-dual.iso makes a fully bootable CD

Best regards,
DanielH

jspicoli · 2015-05-02 17:07:33

+1 for using wodim. Brasero failed for me.

stefanwilkens · 2015-10-14 11:26:56

Hi, sorry for bumping this relatively old topic but I'm running into the same issues on two separate machines.

ISO: archlinux-2015.10.01-dual
HASH: MD5 verified
Burn application: https://cdburnerxp.se/en/home (using data verification mode)

I've burnt the disc twice to make sure the disc itself wasn't to blame.

The I/O error occurs on the same sector between both discs on both machines!

To me this indicates a burn / media issue, but data verification completed perfectly?

Dumping the exact same image to USB and booting off that throws no issues.

Inserting the CD in a booted live environment instantly throws the same I/O error. Inserting some other burned discs also result in I/O errors, though not all. Non-burned media seems allright.

relevant section of dmesg:

[    4.706282] ata1.00: Enabling discard_zeroes_data
[    4.709180]  sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sda6
[    4.709696] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    4.709797] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[    4.709848] ata1.00: Enabling discard_zeroes_data
[    4.709923] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
[    4.719106] sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
[    5.134969] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc
[    5.595642] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#22 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[    5.598555] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#22 Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
[    5.601424] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#22 ASC=0x26 ASCQ=0x0 
[    5.604279] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#22 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 00 05 24 00 00 00 02 00
[    5.607160] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1347584
[    5.852635] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#23 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[    5.855586] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#23 Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
[    5.858498] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#23 ASC=0x26 ASCQ=0x0 
[    5.861372] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#23 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 00 05 24 00 00 00 02 00
[    5.864256] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1347584
[    5.866928] Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 168448, async page read
[    6.820286] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#2 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[    6.823220] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#2 Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
[    6.826112] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#2 ASC=0x26 ASCQ=0x0 
[    6.828962] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#2 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 00 05 24 00 00 00 02 00
[    6.831827] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1347584
[    8.037382] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#3 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
[    8.040309] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#3 Sense Key : 0x5 [current] 
[    8.043173] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#3 ASC=0x26 ASCQ=0x0 
[    8.046010] sr 2:0:0:0: [sr0] tag#3 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 00 05 24 00 00 00 02 00
[    8.048862] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 1347584
[    8.051504] Buffer I/O error on dev sr0, logical block 168448, async page read
[    8.393510] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20150619/nsarguments-95)
[    8.396555] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP: failed to evaluate _DSM
[    8.399427] ACPI Warning: \_SB_.PCI0.PEG0.PEGP._DSM: Argument #4 type mismatch - Found [Buffer], ACPI requires [Package] (20150619/nsarguments-95)
[  219.655557] random: nonblocking pool is initialized

stefanwilkens · 2015-10-14 12:06:47

Switched to http://www.imgburn.com/ and suddenly both systems boot perfectly off the newly burned media.

Going to do some more verification, check discs against each other and the like. The burner application seems to have been the cause.

*edit*

Odd, the install media has the exact same MD5 sum. I'm at a loss for words here.

Last edited by stefanwilkens (2015-10-14 12:53:55)

frank_claessen · 2015-11-22 20:28:50

Hi all,

I realize this is an old post. Yet, trying to burn the latest iSO - having md5sum-checked the iso after download - having burt with both brasero and wodim, I have the same problem.

Same error messages as below, just a different sector number.

I am side stepping this problem now by trying to install from a knoppix live distro - which boots perfectly by the way - even if burnt with brasero.

Burning on Ubuntu 15.04

Anybody knows what I causing this?

Regards

Frank

Lone_Wolf · 2015-11-23 10:27:12

Did you use TAO or SAO burning ?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1580530

Jarry · 2015-11-23 19:39:14

I'd just like to confirm that after an identical problem trying to install from a CD, Lone_Wolf and LK's solution of burning the disk using SAO(DAO) mode worked for me. Many thanks; I don't think I would ever have sussed that one out on my own.

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