Bug 779486

Summary: Installation from USB thumb drive fails after first reboot
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 12.2 Reporter: Forgotten User 10buyl7JnO <forgotten_10buyl7JnO>
Component: KernelAssignee: E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: forgotten_dr8e_4-OWI, jsrain
Version: Final   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 12.2   
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Description Forgotten User 10buyl7JnO 2012-09-10 08:27:13 UTC 
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I just tried to install opensuse 12.2 32 bit from usb thum drive. I went fine until first reboot. On reboot, it kept printing message can not enumerate usb device on port 4 on console and didn't finish the installation. I rebooted the system which then dropped me on single user mode. I had to reinstall from dvd.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Write 32 bit opensuse 12.2 to usb thumbdrive using imagewriter.
2. Boot with usb thumbdrive and install opensuse 12.2.
3. Leave udb drive connected while it reboots first time.
Actual Results:  
Installation fails on reboot due to usb error.

Expected Results:  
Installation should finish same way as dvd.
Comment 1 Kun Kun Zhang 2012-09-10 10:15:51 UTC 
Hi,thank you for your report.could you please help to provide Y2logs according to the following URL?
http://opensuse.org/openSUSE_Bugreport_YaST
Comment 2 Forgotten User 10buyl7JnO 2012-09-10 10:32:40 UTC 
Oops, I already installed from dvd. Now I have to redo it to get the logs. I'll try that on other partition when I get some time.
Comment 3 Forgotten User dr8e_4-OWI 2012-09-14 18:54:59 UTC 
Similar problem with install from USB. With a USB DVD reader, it starts and when installing the Linux on the DVD, it aborts with an error:  Cannot find CD 1.
If I manually connect the DVD reader to the motherboard, it loads the install system. I don't have space in the case for the DVD reader.
Comment 4 Jiri Srain 2012-11-01 07:56:06 UTC 
Which component reports the error? Does kernel get loaded and started, or is the error coming from botloader?
Comment 5 Forgotten User 10buyl7JnO 2012-11-01 08:52:21 UTC 
Not sure which component reported the error or was it from kernel or boot loader but the error keeps repeating and no further progress is there.
Comment 6 Jiri Srain 2012-11-01 09:57:57 UTC 
If it is reproducible, you definitely can find out from the screen if kernel/initrd got loaded, where the boot progressed. As last resort of providing this information, you can attach a screenshot.

Without knowing where the error comes from, we can hardly fix it.
Comment 7 Forgotten User 10buyl7JnO 2012-11-01 10:01:07 UTC 
After this issue, I burned dvd and installed 12.2 and started using it. Now I can't install again on same system and don't have spare system to try. If there is a way to check in virtualbox, I can give it a try but not sure if usb will be attached same way in it.
Comment 8 Jiri Srain 2012-11-01 10:17:00 UTC 
I googled a bit and it led me to

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=635573

This looks like a kernel error...
Comment 9 Forgotten User 10buyl7JnO 2012-11-01 10:30:50 UTC 
But is it related to post installation or normal usage also as I also see such errors now and I filed bug #785480 for that but it doesn't block and I get usable desktop. However current bug prevented finishing last step of installation and made system unusable. If both are same, then I should mark that one as dup of this?
Comment 10 Jeff Mahoney 2013-07-15 23:14:39 UTC 
Yeah, they look like they'd be the same.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 785480 ***