Bug 155351

Summary:	Installation from Hard Disk fails
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Ugo Pozo <ugopozo>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Blocker
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	aj, suse-beta
Version:	Beta 6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.1
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Found By:	Beta-Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Ugo Pozo 2006-03-06 08:23:17 UTC

At first, I though this was related to "Bug 153073 - Installation ignores missing CD2", but after reading the details of that bug I realized the problem was different.

After downloading the 5 cd's of openSuSE 10.1 beta 6, they were merged into one DVD using makeSUSEdvd -i and put to a FAT32 partition. Booting the installer worked fine, and it installed all the packages before asking for a reboot. However, when the machine rebooted, YaST2 restarted looking for more packages to install. It showed the package installation screen with no extra information, i.e., no media, no number of megabytes or packages left, and stood there.

Aborting won't work, and the installation never gets to hostname or further configuration, leaving the system unusable.

Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-03-06 09:38:34 UTC

Please attach the YaST logfiles here. I suppose either the makeSUSEdvd script has a problem or YaST has a wrong impression about the installation media. You mounted the DVD-image via loopback, have you tried if it works with a real DVD?

Comment 2 Christian Boltz 2006-03-06 22:46:53 UTC

A wild guess: is the partition with the installation source mounted? Switch to tty2 and check the "mount" output.

Comment 3 Michael Gross 2006-03-13 09:51:21 UTC

Please reopen this report once you can provide more information.

Comment 4 Azerion Fagonda 2006-03-24 00:13:34 UTC

Check the md5-sums of the iso's with md5sum *.iso. I had the same problem and I found out that the iso's where corrupt. (so the hd-install was also corrupt)

New download, new makeDVD-process, all finished nicely.

Comment 5 Jean-Daniel Dodin 2006-04-29 20:43:57 UTC

I choose to reopen this bug because the problem I got is similar, but with RC3

booting from the mini-CD
* no cd1 message->go to ncurse UI,
* go to install, menu "CDROM, Network, Hard drive"
If I choose cdrom I have a menu "eth0 or eth1" (I have two net cards), then search the cd (and probably should continue, I have not the cds to test)
If I choose Hard drive, asks for eth0 or eth1 and nothong more. never ask for the harddrive.

exactly same problem with mini-iso RC2 and RC3 (may be it's the same iso-but dowloaded from different directory)

mini-iso of RC1 _don't have the problem_, but complain from not being the good boot for the RC3 and fails after that.

I have one hard drive hda an a second as USB sda

Comment 6 Klaus Kämpf 2006-04-30 06:42:07 UTC

Mini-ISO ? Then you're in linuxrc.

Comment 7 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-05-02 09:13:18 UTC

comment 5 is completely unrelated to the original report. Please try to
not stuff everything into one report.

That said, the mini-iso defaults to network install, you have to change that
to what you want in the boot loader. As hard disk installation is
not officially supported, enter install=hd://foo/whatever explicitly as
boot option.