Suse 9.2 installation on external HD
Hi everybody, I am having seriouy problem installing Suse 9.2(64-bit version). I have an external hard drive(a Seagate Barracuda 160 GB, 7200 RPM IDE HD put in a Nexstar USB hard dtive enclosure) connected to the USB port of my laptop(an AMD 64 system). My internal HD is not big enough, so this is why I am installing linux on an external HD. The problem is as follows : Once booted from the CD/DVD ROM drive, the suse 9.2 installation DVD gets stuck at a point showing the message "init.14 soft raid"; it gets stuck there forever. I have no RAID options on my laptop. If I disconnect the external HD, then there is no problem and Yast starts running immediately. I thought that since the external HD is not partitioned(I read it somewhere in linuxquestions.org forum), the installation CD can not read it. After I partitioned it from a linux environment running gentoo(80 GB with win95 FAT32 and 80GB with linux), I had the same problem. The installation gets stuck exactly at the same point. Next, I tried gentoo 2004.3 live CD; same thing here. It gets stuck at autoconfiguring the hardware section. Since external USB device appears as a SCSI emulated device to a linux system, I thought it's better to pass the 'noapic' option while booting. This time the gentoo live CD booted without hitch and the external HD was located at a strange place : /dev/ud/apart1 and /dev/ud/a/part2(I had two partitions). Encouraged with it, I booted the suse 9.2 DVD with 'noapic' option. This time I had no problem and Yast's graphical environment started quickly. But I found that the external disc is not detected. The only option I am left with is to partition my internal HD. This may have to do with the kernel. It loads the external HD as a removable USB device and apparently I can not install the OS there. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I spent the whole morning without any result. Thanks Jaydeep
Jaydeep Majumder <jaydeep.majumder@helsinki.fi> writes:
Encouraged with it, I booted the suse 9.2 DVD with 'noapic' option. This time I had no problem and Yast's graphical environment started quickly. But I found that the external disc is not detected. The only option I am left with is to partition my internal HD. This may have to do with the kernel. It loads the external HD as a removable USB device and apparently I can not install the OS there.
What's the output of "hwinfo --disk" at this point? Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Hi Andreas, I have a näive question. How can I get to the command line option? I got the Yast's graphical interface. The option I chose : 'Installation' with boot: noapic. Jaydeep Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jaydeep Majumder <jaydeep.majumder@helsinki.fi> writes:
Encouraged with it, I booted the suse 9.2 DVD with 'noapic' option. This time I had no problem and Yast's graphical environment started quickly. But I found that the external disc is not detected. The only option I am left with is to partition my internal HD. This may have to do with the kernel. It loads the external HD as a removable USB device and apparently I can not install the OS there.
What's the output of "hwinfo --disk" at this point?
Andreas
Jaydeep Majumder <jaydeep.majumder@helsinki.fi> writes:
Hi Andreas,
I have a näive question. How can I get to the command line option? I got the Yast's graphical interface. The option I chose : 'Installation' with boot: noapic.
Just switch consoles with e.g. Ctrl+Alt-F5. There should be a root console on F5, Andreas
Jaydeep
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jaydeep Majumder <jaydeep.majumder@helsinki.fi> writes:
Encouraged with it, I booted the suse 9.2 DVD with 'noapic' option. This time I had no problem and Yast's graphical environment started quickly. But I found that the external disc is not detected. The only option I am left with is to partition my internal HD. This may have to do with the kernel. It loads the external HD as a removable USB device and apparently I can not install the OS there.
What's the output of "hwinfo --disk" at this point?
Andreas
Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
Thanks. Here is the output. I think it only detected my internal hard drive. 23 : IDE 00.0: 10600 Disk [Created at block 1879] Unique ID _ l_yX.CrcWLmRXhv4 Parent ID : +Y+h.8FWzq0ee8eI Sys FS ID: /block/hda Sys FS Bus ID : 0.0 Sys FS Device Link : /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.1/ide0/0.0 Hardware class: disk Model: HTS726060M9AT00 Device : " Revision: MH40A68A Serial ID : MRH403M4GP50AB Drive: "VIA_IDE", "ide-disk" Device File: /dev/hda Device No.: block 3:0-3:63 BIOS ID :0x80 Geometry(Physical) : CHS 16383/16/63 Geometry(Logical) : " Size: 117210240 sectors a 512 bytes Cache: 7877 kb Config status : cfs=new,avial=yes,need=noactive=unknown Attached to: #15(IDE interface) That's it. Jaydeep Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jaydeep Majumder <jaydeep.majumder@helsinki.fi> writes:
Hi Andreas,
I have a näive question. How can I get to the command line option? I got the Yast's graphical interface. The option I chose : 'Installation' with boot: noapic.
Just switch consoles with e.g. Ctrl+Alt-F5. There should be a root console on F5,
Andreas
Jaydeep
Andreas Jaeger wrote:
Jaydeep Majumder <jaydeep.majumder@helsinki.fi> writes:
Encouraged with it, I booted the suse 9.2 DVD with 'noapic' option. This time I had no problem and Yast's graphical environment started quickly. But I found that the external disc is not detected. The only option I am left with is to partition my internal HD. This may have to do with the kernel. It loads the external HD as a removable USB device and apparently I can not install the OS there.
What's the output of "hwinfo --disk" at this point?
Andreas
Andreas
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