Bug 457125

but these messages do not cause a problem, correct? I guess the DVD problems you see are due to #448807 - do you have some card reader or USB stick attached?

I have no USB stick or memory card attached. There is a build in cardreader in my laptop but I can't switch it of in the BIOS. There is only an option to lock all USB ports, tried this but it doesn't help.

I don't know if this message causes the problem, but it is related to it. I tried again to boot from 11.0 medias and there was no problem.

When using 11.1-RC1 following happens:

11.1-RC1 DVD:
on boot this message appears:

> >>> opensSUSE installation program v3.3.20 (c) 1996-2008 SUSE Linux products GmbH <<<
> udevd[24]: unable to receive kernel netlink message: No buffer space available

then after several minutes it falls back to the text mode installer with the message:
"make sure that CD number 1 is in you drive"
Hitting OK doesn't change anything
If I go back to
Expert > System Information > Hard Disks or CD-ROMs
my DVD-drive and my hard disk is displayed with driver "ata_piix".
But when I want to start instalation from DVD I get:
"No repository found"

11.1-RC1 NET-install CD:
same boot message, but installer starts. While checking hardware is says:
"no hard disks found"

11.1-RC1 KDE4-live CD:

installs, but on system boot i get the above mentioned message. Sometimes the system starts, bout mostly I get:

waiting for device /dev/sda1 to appear: ...... Could not find /dev/sda1

I don't know which further message could be helpful, so please let me know. 

maybe this is related to Bug 443143

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 443143 ***

Doesn't look like a duplicate.  Reopening.

Created attachment 265551 [details]
boot.msg from netinstall image

Created attachment 265552 [details]
dmesg output from netinstall

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lspci output from netinstall

This seems to be something specific to ICH4.  Maybe some recent changes broke it.  ICH4 not being too common these days, it might have passed through the upstream testing.  Or maybe it's the spurious IRQ handling code added for SL111.  Many ATA problems appear during probing, once things pass probing and initial scanning for partition (or identification by sr for cdroms), it's generally okay unless it suffers transmission errors during high volume transfers.  In the logs you posted, it seems that, aside the spurious IRQ warnings (usually safe to ignore), everything went as expected, so it's a bit puzzling what could have gone wrong here.  Also, as far as the kernel and libata drivers are concerned the DVD, gnome or kde live CDs don't make much difference, so that's another thing which seems weird.

So, the first thing to do is to find out what went wrong.  As soon as the installation media (DVD or whatever) starts to load drivers (starting udev....), press alt-f4, that's where the kernel will spit out its messages.  As the boot system continues to load, you'll be able to see drivers being loaded and probing for devices.  Once all the drivers are loaded, the installation system tries to locate the rest of the installation system from the installation media.  If this is where things are failing, the kernel will probably spit out IO errors or whine other stuff there.  Can you please report what goes on there?

Thanks.

Please reopen when you are able to provide the requested information.

The message

> udevd[24]: unable to receive kernel netlink message: No buffer space available

appears during the driver loading. Then after loading the drivers it jumps to the text-based kernel installer and produces the error message "make sure that disc number 1 is in you drive" (when using DVD as the installation source). I can't really see what happens before that because the screen disappears quickly when the text-based installer appears. When I go to the menu where the installation source is chosen and try to pick DVD again, it complains that the source cannot be found even though the disc is in the drive.

The hardware check fails in 5 tests, one of them being a "memory hole" test (between 15 and 16 MB's). I cannot save the log of the hardware check because it doesn't recognize my USB stick in the drive.

That the Hardware check is failing means you have got flaky hardware/memory.

Nothing for us to solve, so please fix your hardware.

I get exactly sam message as Lauri Lehman(#11)! kinda happy I'm not alone 

> udevd[24]: unable to receive kernel netlink message: No buffer space available

Firmware Test gives exactly same memory problem between 15 and 16 MB's.

I know for sure that my hardware aint flaky!!!

My hardware is a Asus W3H00N laptop. It is a kind of W3N.

I am not a linux world expert not even even close, but something tells me that newer kernels have some issues with older Pentium M processors (like my Dothan 725) and/or their motherboard chipsets. thanks for attention