Gore: I know its trying to check the cdrom for problems, thats what I wanted it to do. It was just strange that it said cannot read medium when there was no medium in the cdrom.

nihil: Setting the cdrom as the first boot option was something I did when I first installed suse on this machine and the boot disc still loads correctly. so thats why I'm saying its not a problem with the cdrom itself so much as a config problem. But I dont know where to go to reconfigure the cdrom. I started googling the model of the cdrom and suse a few days ago and while the suse site says that my particular model is not supported the site also has not been updated in that regard for sometime I would think AND the other models listed from pioneer are almost exaclty like mine. Though almost doesnt always cut it I still say its a config problem and any thoughts on where I can change some settings for my cdrom would be nice because I cant find a dman thing on google that helps out me in this particular situation.