Bugzilla – Bug 783131
hang during install without CD
Last modified: 2012-10-25 19:31:17 UTC
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:18.0) Gecko/18.0 Firefox/18.0 SeaMonkey/2.15a1 With nothing in the DVD reader, hang at boot (never comes to the "Please insert CD 1" popup). With a music CD in the reader, starts the install, but hangs at 60% while looking for Linux partitions. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start with openSUSE 12.1 running on sda3, swap on sda2, 5GB or more free on sda1 2. Mount /dev/sda1 on (let's say) /mnt/extra 3. Download openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso to /mnt/extra 4. Mount it on (let's say) /mnt/iso over the loop device 5. pushd /mnt/iso/boot/x86_64/loader 6. cp -v linux initrd /mnt/extra 7. popd 8. Set up a new GRUB entry: kernel linux, initrd initrd, both on (hd0,0) 9. Try to boot your new GRUB menuitem Actual Results: (a) With nothing in the DVD drive: hang (b) With a music CD in the DVD drive: a curses popup comes up, asking for CD 1 in the drive. Let's continue the STR: 10. "Back" 11. Select language from a popup menu (I chose English(US).) 12. Select keyboard from a popup menu (I chose Belgian) 13. Select "Install or update" from popup menu 14. Select "Hard drive" as install medium. 15. Select sda1 as install partition 16. Select /openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso as "directory" (the initial slash is important). Install starts. After some time the console goes into graphic mode. A number of steps happen, probing the hardware, and at bottom a progress bar advances. At 60%, while looking for Linux partitions, the install system hangs. Expected Results: Install should have gone on, eventually asking if I want to do an install or an upgrade. Additional info: - On /dev/tty4 I see a lot of error messages about device fd0 sector 0. New ones arrive constantly, pushing up messages about my USB mouse when there are any. - There is no floppy drive on this machine. I tried to disable the floppy in the BIOS setup but then it wouldn't find the bootloader.
Hi,could you please help to provide y2logs according to the following URL? http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_YaST
Created attachment 509550 [details] /tmp/y2logs.tgz as produced by save_y2logs Notes: - The hang happens while looking for a Linux partition: AFAICT, before looking for packages - I update my openSUSE 12.1 system with either yast or zypper depending on which repositories are listed by "zypper lu".
Floppy drives seem not to be supported anymore. See bug 757368 or bug 773058. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 773058 ***
(In reply to comment #3) > Floppy drives seem not to be supported anymore. See bug 757368 or bug 773058. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 773058 *** 757368 "appears to be fixed in 12.2 Beta 2" (bug 757368 comment #10) but I was trying to install 12.2 Final so I suppose it cannot be that. Let's hope bug 773058 will be fixed in 12.3 (supposedly next March) so I won't have to leave openSUSE (which I know and like) for Fedora (I used to double-boot RedHat and SuSE for comparison before Fedora existed, but finally I chose SuSE; RedHat came out a close second) or even Ubuntu (which every Linux user I know seems to use, except one Austrian guy now working in Silicon Valley; but from what I hear I'm not at all sure I would like it). Or else, maybe I'll find out how to disable floppies in the BIOS while still being able to boot GRUB — that's something I haven't (yet?) found out.