[opensuse] installation of 11.0 fails
Hello - I have decided to upgrade my system from SuSE 10.3 to SuSE 11.0 and am encountering a failure during the installation process fairly early on... From the installation DVD it loads the initial kernel ok, brings up the Welcome screen which requires me to accept the license agreement, then does a system probe which I think is also succeeding. Within seconds of the system probe being completed I get a quick glimpse of a few lines of script being shown in the console window then a popup error message comes up saying "An error occurred during the installation." Not much to go on, So I ran the media check tests, the memory tests and the firmware tests. The media and memory tests passed but the firmware test gave me the following errors and warnings - (other stuff also but I think uninteresting...) 1.Fail EDD Boot disk hinting Boot device 0x80 does not support EDD 2.Fail OS/2 memory hole test The memory map has a memory hole between 15Mb and 16Mb 3.Fail HPET configuration test Failed to locate HPET base 4.Warn CPU frequency scaling test (1-2 mins) Frequency scaling not supported 5.Warn PCI Express MaxReadReq tuning MaxReadReq for device pci://00:00:1b.0 is low (128) MaxReadReq for device pci://00:01:00.0 is low (128) MaxReadReq for device pci://00:01.00.1 is low (128) Doesn't make a lot of sense to me so need an interpreter... I also looked at the kernel messages and saw nothing in the way of error or warning messages, just the usual sorts of things... SO where do I go from here? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions and please keep in mind I am NOT a Linux guru so keep it simple for me... Marc.... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Marc Chamberlin
Hello -
I have decided to upgrade my system from SuSE 10.3 to SuSE 11.0 and am encountering a failure during the installation process fairly early on... From the installation DVD it loads the initial kernel ok, brings up the Welcome screen which requires me to accept the license agreement, then does a system probe which I think is also succeeding. Within seconds of the system probe being completed I get a quick glimpse of a few lines of script being shown in the console window then a popup error message comes up saying "An error occurred during the installation."
Not much to go on, So I ran the media check tests, the memory tests and the firmware tests. The media and memory tests passed but the firmware test gave me the following errors and warnings - (other stuff also but I think uninteresting...)
1.Fail EDD Boot disk hinting Boot device 0x80 does not support EDD 2.Fail OS/2 memory hole test The memory map has a memory hole between 15Mb and 16Mb 3.Fail HPET configuration test Failed to locate HPET base 4.Warn CPU frequency scaling test (1-2 mins) Frequency scaling not supported 5.Warn PCI Express MaxReadReq tuning MaxReadReq for device pci://00:00:1b.0 is low (128) MaxReadReq for device pci://00:01:00.0 is low (128) MaxReadReq for device pci://00:01.00.1 is low (128)
Doesn't make a lot of sense to me so need an interpreter... I also looked at the kernel messages and saw nothing in the way of error or warning messages, just the usual sorts of things... SO where do I go from here? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions and please keep in mind I am NOT a Linux guru so keep it simple for me...
Marc....
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Marc, This doesn't make a lot of sense to me either... I am just wondering - have you tested the installation media (DVD)? Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Boris Epstein wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Marc Chamberlin
wrote: Hello -
I have decided to upgrade my system from SuSE 10.3 to SuSE 11.0 and am encountering a failure during the installation process fairly early on... From the installation DVD it loads the initial kernel ok, brings up the Welcome screen which requires me to accept the license agreement, then does a system probe which I think is also succeeding. Within seconds of the system probe being completed I get a quick glimpse of a few lines of script being shown in the console window then a popup error message comes up saying "An error occurred during the installation."
Not much to go on, So I ran the media check tests, the memory tests and the firmware tests. The media and memory tests passed but the firmware test gave me the following errors and warnings - (other stuff also but I think uninteresting...)
1.Fail EDD Boot disk hinting Boot device 0x80 does not support EDD 2.Fail OS/2 memory hole test The memory map has a memory hole between 15Mb and 16Mb 3.Fail HPET configuration test Failed to locate HPET base 4.Warn CPU frequency scaling test (1-2 mins) Frequency scaling not supported 5.Warn PCI Express MaxReadReq tuning MaxReadReq for device pci://00:00:1b.0 is low (128) MaxReadReq for device pci://00:01:00.0 is low (128) MaxReadReq for device pci://00:01.00.1 is low (128)
Doesn't make a lot of sense to me so need an interpreter... I also looked at the kernel messages and saw nothing in the way of error or warning messages, just the usual sorts of things... SO where do I go from here? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions and please keep in mind I am NOT a Linux guru so keep it simple for me...
Marc....
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Marc,
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me either... I am just wondering - have you tested the installation media (DVD)?
Boris.
Hi Boris, thanks for the quick reply, yes as I mentioned, I tested the DVD and it reported that it is OK.... Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Marc Chamberlin
Boris Epstein wrote:
On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Marc Chamberlin
wrote: Hello -
I have decided to upgrade my system from SuSE 10.3 to SuSE 11.0 and am encountering a failure during the installation process fairly early on... From the installation DVD it loads the initial kernel ok, brings up the Welcome screen which requires me to accept the license agreement, then does a system probe which I think is also succeeding. Within seconds of the system probe being completed I get a quick glimpse of a few lines of script being shown in the console window then a popup error message comes up saying "An error occurred during the installation."
Not much to go on, So I ran the media check tests, the memory tests and the firmware tests. The media and memory tests passed but the firmware test gave me the following errors and warnings - (other stuff also but I think uninteresting...)
1.Fail EDD Boot disk hinting Boot device 0x80 does not support EDD 2.Fail OS/2 memory hole test The memory map has a memory hole between 15Mb and 16Mb 3.Fail HPET configuration test Failed to locate HPET base 4.Warn CPU frequency scaling test (1-2 mins) Frequency scaling not supported 5.Warn PCI Express MaxReadReq tuning MaxReadReq for device pci://00:00:1b.0 is low (128) MaxReadReq for device pci://00:01:00.0 is low (128) MaxReadReq for device pci://00:01.00.1 is low (128)
Doesn't make a lot of sense to me so need an interpreter... I also looked at the kernel messages and saw nothing in the way of error or warning messages, just the usual sorts of things... SO where do I go from here? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions and please keep in mind I am NOT a Linux guru so keep it simple for me...
Marc....
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Marc,
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me either... I am just wondering - have you tested the installation media (DVD)?
Boris.
Hi Boris, thanks for the quick reply, yes as I mentioned, I tested the DVD and it reported that it is OK.... Marc...
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Try to run it in the "detailed" mode to see what RPM (package) it fails to install. (And no, I don't have a clue what this may be, just trying to come up with some soft of an investigative strategy here.) Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Tuesday 2008-09-09 at 12:59 -0700, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
I have decided to upgrade my system from SuSE 10.3 to SuSE 11.0 and am encountering a failure during the installation process fairly early on... From the installation DVD it loads the initial kernel ok, brings up the Welcome screen which requires me to accept the license agreement, then does a system probe which I think is also succeeding. Within seconds of the system probe being completed I get a quick glimpse of a few lines of script being shown in the console window then a popup error message comes up saying "An error occurred during the installation."
I assume this is before it does the actuall installation. Have a look round all the text consoles to see if there is something reported. If not, look at the logs: two of the consoles allows typing commands, so you can have a look at the logs on /var/log (it is a ramdisk, not a real disk). Some of those logs belongs to the installer. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjH8dQACgkQtTMYHG2NR9W91gCfQrqyOQxcaxhu8g6jt94t4I+m kzUAnRfC0mfyNClLm9TBUPNo+ahS8OXa =cqf1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Boris Epstein
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Carlos E. R.
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Marc Chamberlin