Bugzilla – Bug 115131
installation fails from USB hard drive directories
Last modified: 2007-01-22 14:24:50 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.
Created attachment 48693 [details] YaST2 logs
Stefan, can you reproduce this? Does this occur in during your testing?
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.
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.
Yes, but what do I have to do with this? It's yast that can't install. Or not?
Actually, I'm not sure who could fix that and how. Installation, Installation Sources, Package Manager.
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.
According to Steffen it meanwhile works, so no more yast action should be reuquired.