Bug 104215

Summary:	Installation from USB disk fails completely
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Forgotten User OS1JNCFbCX <forgotten_OS1JNCFbCX>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	E-mail List <yast2-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SUSE Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Forgotten User OS1JNCFbCX 2005-08-11 18:10:47 UTC

I am not sure whether it is supported to install from USB disk.  If it is not
supported, feel free to just close this bug with a short comment but I think it
would be quite a valuable feature to be able to do so.

What I did:

- copied the whole inst-source firectory from ftp to a USB disk

- installed a boot loader on the same disk with

- booted from this disk for installation

First minor issue occurs here: Within the boot manager USB disk or hard disk is
not selectable.  So I selected CD-ROM to make linuxrc fall back into manual mode.

- started installation from USB disk.

Installation run perfectly sane until reboot after installing all packages.

After the reboot the init scripts failed with a myriad of error messages.

I could not read all the messages but it seemed to me that he had problems
finding the USB disk again and thus rest of installation completely failed.

Installing from CD-ROMs on the same system worked flawlessly.

I currently have not saved all the log files because I was not sure whether you
are willing to fix that at all.  If you are willing to fix this and need more
information, I could try the same with beta2.

Comment 1 Andreas Klein 2005-08-11 18:38:51 UTC

You have to include the usb-modules into the initrd. See bug 66733. This is
about installing onto USB-disk.

Comment 2 Forgotten User OS1JNCFbCX 2005-08-11 19:26:00 UTC

Thanks for the hint. Will check whether your solution does also fix this problem
when it is implemented.

Comment 3 Stanislav Visnovsky 2005-08-12 06:32:19 UTC

Please, provide the YaST logs. 
See http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Submit_a_bug for details.

Comment 4 Forgotten User OS1JNCFbCX 2005-08-12 07:05:56 UTC

Ok, will provide them for the next beta.

Comment 5 Forgotten User OS1JNCFbCX 2005-08-19 08:50:28 UTC

Whatever it was, it is fixed for beta2.