Bug 121934

Summary:	LiveDVD initrd failure
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Anthony Watts <aj_watts>
Component:	Basesystem	Assignee:	Torsten Duwe <duwe>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Anthony Watts 2005-10-10 10:51:24 UTC

Error message received as follows. pls note error also occured on intel centrino
based laptop.

Ramdisk - compresed image found at block 0 invlaid compressed format (err=2)
VFS: Can't open root device "<null>" or unknown block (3,3)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: UNable to mount root fs on unknown block (3,3)

pls note. this install was tried and failed at the same place in the boot
sequence on 2 different machines (desktop and laptop). The h/ware configurations
are as follows:

Desktop system: being used to baseline.
EPOX 8K3A Mainbrd
AMD 2100
512MB DDR RAM
2 x HDD (4GB, 20GB)
2MB SVGA Card
10/100 realtek NIC
LITEON DVDR/CDR drive

laptop system: being used to test wireless capability
Toshiba Satellite. Model M40X-750
Intel Mobile 1.5Ghz CPU
Intel Centrino equipped
512MB RAM
60GB HDD
Realtek integtrated NIC
8MB ATI video card

Comment 1 Dr. Werner Fink 2005-10-10 11:03:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121910 ***

Comment 2 Torsten Duwe 2005-10-10 11:19:41 UTC

for a quick check, can you "gzip -tv /media/cdrom/initrd.gz" (or wherever you 
choose to mount the DVD). Is this the LiveDVD only version or the Promo 
version with installation capability?

Comment 3 Torsten Duwe 2005-10-10 11:22:54 UTC

*** Bug 121910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Anthony Watts 2005-10-10 11:54:52 UTC

The version appears to be the LiveDVD. it didn't seem to have any installation
capability. It is auto booting.I am unable to to do the gzip command you
requested as I am not mounting it from a unix environment, but testing it on
full windows 2000 (desktop) and xp pro (laptop) systems.

The image only lets me change language and video resolution and then loads the
kernel without any other interaction.

Interestingly, it completely hangs the laptop and I can't turn it off. (kwown
issue with software controlled power switches. This can happen on windows as well)

Apologies for the dup. This is my first bug file and I'm still getting a handle
on it.

Comment 5 Torsten Duwe 2005-10-10 15:36:06 UTC

Please understand the next step is to check whether the ISO has arrived on 
your blank medium intact. Maybe find a gzip or try if winzip does the trick.

Comment 6 Anthony Watts 2005-10-10 22:55:54 UTC

using a gzip utility form the windows command line the following was typed:

gzip -tv e:\initrd.gz

GZIP E:\INITRD.GZ INVALID COMPRESSED DATA--FORMAT VIOLATED

taking a guess, that means eitehr the download or copy to dvd was corrupted at
some stage. Is there any other test we can run to validate this?

Comment 7 Anthony Watts 2005-10-12 05:09:21 UTC

more info on this.

I downloaded a fresh version of the LIVEDVD and burned it to DVD. I then tested
it as requested and got an OK returned from gzip.

I retried the previous download and got OK returned from the gzip command. I
can't explain why the difference between the 2.

I have booted from the new download and it all appears to run OK. The install
failed to detect my wireless adaptor on my laptop and attentoping to cofigure it
gave an erorr becasue it could load some modules.

However I have seen enough. pls close this bug report.

regards

Anthony