https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846237 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=846237#c0 Summary: Computer hangs while booting from OS installed to USB drive Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 13.1 Version: RC 1 Platform: i386 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.3 Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Bootloader AssignedTo: jsrain@suse.com ReportedBy: smartcatxxx@yahoo.com QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 I have installed openSUSE 13.1 RC 1 to an external USB drive. The installation completed successfully, with no reported errors. When I rebooted the machine and selected in the BIOS to have it boot from the USB drive, the bootloader hangs. Booting in safe mode reveals that it cannot mount the / partition and just sits there and waits for it to show up. I have performed an identical installation using openSUSE 12.3 and that was successful and booted just fine. Hence, this is somethings specific to 13.1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Old Pentium 4 desktop computer with 2 GB RAM, which can boot from USB. 2. Remove all hard drives (so they would not interfere with the installation) then connect 8GB USB stick 3. Install openSUSE to the USB. Partitioning: /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 swap /dev/sda3 / (root) 4. Chose grub as bootloader and select to install it to MBR. 5. Complete the installation. 6. Reboot the computer. It starts booting up to the point where it shows the standard black and green opensuse desktop background then nothing else happens. No menus and no mouse cursor show up, and the system does not take any keyboard input. Basically it's dead. I have booted again this time in failsafe mode, some text scrolls quickly on the screen and this is the last message before getting stuck: Waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id-usb/Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000000272-0:0-part3 to appear: ............... Could not find /dev/disk/by-id-usb/Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000000272-0:0-part3. Want me to fall back to /dev/disk/by-id-usb/Generic_STORAGE_DEVICE_000000000272-0:0-part3? (Y/n) Typing in Y or n does nothing. I have plugged the USB stick on 2 laptops, an old dual core Dell and a newer Dell laptop with UEFI, and again the bootloader gets stuck at the same point. Note, openSUSE 12.3 and XUbuntu 13.04 install and boot just fine, using the same installation procedure. Someone in the forums suggested that the 3.11 kernel may be the culprit. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.