Bugzilla – Bug 155351
Installation from Hard Disk fails
Last modified: 2006-05-02 09:13:18 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.
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?
A wild guess: is the partition with the installation source mounted? Switch to tty2 and check the "mount" output.
Please reopen this report once you can provide more information.
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.
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
Mini-ISO ? Then you're in linuxrc.
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.