[Bug 309070] New: Install impossible in a pata system with more than 16 partitions.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070 Summary: Install impossible in a pata system with more than 16 partitions. Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Beta 3 Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: robin.listas@telefonica.net QAContact: jsrain@novell.com Found By: --- I boot the DVD of beta 3. It searches the partitions, sees there are disks with more than 16 partitions, and pops a large warning, recommending to reboot the install with kernel option "hwprobe=-modules.pata". According to Andreas Jaeger (factory mail list) this should not happen, and please report it to bugzilla. However, not knowing that, I reboot with that kernel option. When I reach the point of installation when it tries the network in order to add online repos, before the proposals, it pops a window requesting "insert opensuse 10.3 CD1", "continue/cancel". Continue fails to find the DVD (not CD1!), and cancels aborts the installation. Furthermore, the command "mount" in a console says there is nothing at all mounted, not even "/". I consider bug this critical as I can not install at all. System is fully PATA, not any SATA in the motherborad or bios. An external usb HD was connected at install time (I forgot to power it off). Currently I use 10.2. -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070
Andreas Jaeger
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c1
--- Comment #1 from Felix Miata
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c2
--- Comment #2 from Carlos Robinson
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c3
Thomas Fehr
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c4
Carlos Robinson
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c5
Thomas Fehr
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c6
Steffen Winterfeldt
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070
Steffen Winterfeldt
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c7
Steffen Winterfeldt
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c8
--- Comment #8 from Felix Miata
What is written in bug #218122 has nothing to do with installation. So it is not relevant for this case.
My reading of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218122#c18 is that reporter can, because of the bug 303799 problem, as an alternative to using hwprobe=-modules.pata to start the installer, do as specified in that comment - if the fix for that bug was checked in prior to beta3 freeze. -- 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.
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--- Comment #9 from Carlos Robinson
Carlos, no need to check. See my comment in bug 303799.
Too late, I had already rebooted, had lunch, tried, and rebooted back to 10.2 to report back to you. I got on 'lshal': error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory However, I can mount manually the dvd or a HD partition. I have the y2log file of that test if you want it. -- 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.
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--- Comment #10 from Carlos Robinson
My reading of https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218122#c18 is that reporter can, because of the bug 303799 problem, as an alternative to using hwprobe=-modules.pata to start the installer, do as specified in that comment - if the fix for that bug was checked in prior to beta3 freeze.
Sorry, Felix, but if I were to try that, I'd need a "guide for dummies" O:-) What I'm afraid is that people with more than 16 partitions on PATA will not be able to install 10.3 GM at all, and maybe not even 10.4 as pata support will be removed completely by then :-( -- 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.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c11
--- Comment #11 from Thomas Fehr
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c12
--- Comment #12 from Carlos Robinson
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=309070#c13
--- Comment #13 from Thomas Fehr
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