When installing Mandriva 2007 Power Pack from DVD (paid, downloaded from one of the Mandriva ftp mirrors and burned on DVD). After loading Linux Kernel I get the following error message:

Fatal error finishing initialization

The Kernel log has several lines with most importantly:

...
<6>hda: ATAPI DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1536kB ache, UDMA(44)
...
<3> Buffer I/O error on device hda
<6>hda: rw=0, want=8911816, limit=684736
<6>attempt to access beyond end of device

My system is a brand new HP with AMD 64/dual core and non OS installed on the 250GB SATA HD. The error appears with both 32bit and 64bit DVD version (I downloaded both).

Anybody has a suggestion?

Welcome to LQ
I hope somebody else has view on this.

Similar thread found, no answer
http://forum.club.mandriva.com/viewt...63019b2331a4c5

I would suggest these
0) Check the md5 checksum of the download
1) Try another dvd (I mean reburn on another brand.
Try a lower speed.
3) Put the sata drive in legacy mode via the bios

I found one thread with similar error where
there was a bad md5 checksum

What software did you use to do the download?
(re being sure that the download was not interupted/corrupted)

Might be something else