Bug 115131

Summary:	installation fails from USB hard drive directories
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Frank-Michael Fischer <fmfischer>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Michael Andres <ma>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	jsrain
Version:	Beta 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	YaST2 logs

Description Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-09-03 12:51:06 UTC

I am installing from CDx directories on an external UDB hard drive. The  
initial installation works fine, but after the first reboot, the installation  
routine cannot find CD2 directory because the external USB disk was not  
recognized. End of installation attempt.  
  
Workaround: switch the external USB drive off, then on again and wait about a  
minute. Then the installation routine retries and finds all the directories  
again.   
  
I consider this a blocker, since nowhere on screen or in docs one gets the 
advice to repower the distribution hard drive.

Comment 1 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-09-03 12:51:53 UTC

Created attachment 48693 [details]
YaST2 logs

Comment 2 Andreas Jaeger 2005-09-03 15:12:57 UTC

Stefan, can you reproduce this?  Does this occur in during your testing?

Comment 3 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-09-03 16:30:54 UTC

It's basically the same problem when soft booting Linux with a powered-on 
connected USB disk. Quite often it will not be registered (separate bug?), 
only after powering it on with running Linux.

Comment 4 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2005-09-03 20:33:47 UTC

i have not tested this yet. But since
a) this is not a supported installation method
b) there is a workaround
this is no blocker.

Comment 5 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-09-05 08:27:20 UTC

Yes, but what do I have to do with this? It's yast that can't install. Or not?

Comment 6 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-05 09:21:43 UTC

Actually, I'm not sure who could fix that and how. Installation, Installation
Sources, Package Manager.

Comment 7 Frank-Michael Fischer 2005-09-05 09:24:41 UTC

it's slightly more complicated: it's the linux system that has a hard time  
recognizing an external USB hard disk when powered on during boot already.  
This bug is inherent to all linuxes I am working with up to 2.6.13. So one  
should connect (power-on) such disk after finished boot only.  
  
It's a YaST2 installation problem not giving a message what to do, e.g.  
repower the drive when it's external.  
  
Maybe YaST2 installation could also restart external USB recognition (if this  
helps) before trying to access the distribution partition.

Comment 8 Michael Andres 2007-01-22 14:24:50 UTC

According to Steffen it meanwhile works, so no more yast action should be reuquired.