SATA DVD drive produces corruptions and crashes => fixed in svn

[unggnu]

If I try to install openSUSE with the virtual SATA dvd drive the installation hangs after a short time. When I install the system with rpm packages instead of a direct copy I directly get md5 checksum errors.

This problem doesn't appear if I use the virtual IDE drive so it looks like the DVD Sata implementation is broken.

I am using Virtualbox 4.0.4 on openSUSE 11.4 64 Bit.

[Frank Mehnert]

Could you attach a VBox.log file for both VM sessions?

[unggnu]

It should be easily reproducible with the openSUSE 11.4 DVD.

[Frank Mehnert]

Could you apply r36972 and check if this fixes your problem?

[Frank Mehnert]

Please reopen if still relevant with VBox 4.0.8.

[Amar Takhar]

I've hit this bug myself installing Debian onto a VM using the following images with SATA and IntelAhci controller:

• ​http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/6.0.1a/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-6.0.1a-amd64-DVD-1.iso
• ​http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/5.0.8/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-508-amd64-DVD-1.iso

6.0.1a fails installing eject-udeb 2.1 with a "bad md5sum" error (hit alt-f2 and check /var/log/syslog in the non-gui installer.)

If I switch to IDE+ICH6 it installs fine, also switching back to SATA+IntelAhci after install appears to work just fine

6.0.1a, 6.0.1.2 fail in the same spot for i386+amd64.. 5.0.8 fails in a different spot for both i386/amd64.

[aeichner]

Thanks for the report, I was able to reproduce the issue and will investigate it.

[aeichner]

Fixed the bug in svn. Only reading from DVD images bigger than 4GB was affected.

[Amar Takhar]

Thanks, I can confirm the bug has been fixed.

[Amar Takhar]

I should have mentioned in my original post, the ​netinst CD fails as well which is only 400MB so there may be an entirely separate bug that caused it to trigger this bug.

With this patch it installs correctly.

[aeichner]

I'm not able to reproduce the problem with netinstall iso even without the patch.

[Frank Mehnert]

verm, which VBox version did you use when you observed the bug?

[Amar Takhar]

4.1.0 r37847 (beta 2) on FreeBSD 9-C last updated 2011-07-11.

[Frank Mehnert]

Fix also contained in VBox 4.0.12.