Bug 115785 - Installation fails on 2nd CD when installing w/ external firewire drive.
Summary: Installation fails on 2nd CD when installing w/ external firewire drive.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Preview 4
Hardware: x86 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Critical
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Assignee: E-mail List
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2005-09-08 05:08 UTC by tom cullen
Modified: 2005-09-21 07:41 UTC (History)
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Found By: Beta-Customer
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Description tom cullen 2005-09-08 05:08:21 UTC 
Hardware: Sony C1MW Laptop (Picturebook)
Transmeta Crusoe Processor, 256MB RAM, 30GB hard drive, ATI Radeon 7000, 
external firewire CD-RW/DVD ROM.

Set to standard settings, no packages added/removed, with Gnome Desktop.

Boot from CD1, installation proceeds normally until restarting between CD's 1 
& 2. Once back in package installation, system has "lost" the firewire drive.

Additionally, attempted install with ACPI off and a "safe" install. same 
results.

URL: cd:///;devices=/dev/sr0
ERROR(Media: mount failed)

re-started without installation CD's in the drive, what is user/pass that 
would let me into the simple X11 session that started so I can gain access to 
logs? Where and what logs would be the best to inspect, so I may report back?
Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-08 06:36:52 UTC 
Please, use the Rescue system which is on the installation CD and send YaST logs.
There is no usable password on the system without finished installation.

http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST

Thanks
Comment 2 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-08 07:16:56 UTC 
Hannes: isn't this a known bug, or would you be able to determine what's wrong,
please? It might be an initrd problem...
Comment 3 Hannes Reinecke 2005-09-08 07:21:51 UTC 
Not an initrd problem. After all, you're not installing onto a firewire disk,
are you?

But there were some problems with firewire; namely that sbp2 wasn't loaded
properly. But I don't know the status of it (nor do I have _any_ firewire
hardware; making it quite hard to reproduce :-).

So please check whether the module 'sbp2' is loaded in the installed system
after reboot.
Comment 5 Olaf Hering 2005-09-08 07:53:25 UTC 
what version is that? ieee1394 detection via udev did not work due to the
missing MODALIAS= variable in the hotplug events. Try again with rc1, or just
update the kernel from ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/kotd/i386/HEAD/
Comment 6 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-13 07:25:17 UTC 
Tom, please, have you tried the RC1 or the new Kernel from update? Any progress
here?
Comment 7 Lukas Ocilka 2005-09-21 07:41:31 UTC 
Should be fixed with RC1