[Bug 783131] New: hang during install without CD
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783131 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783131#c0 Summary: hang during install without CD Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.2 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: openSUSE 12.2 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Installation AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net QAContact: jsrain@suse.com Found By: --- Blocker: --- 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. -- 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=783131 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783131#c1 kk zhang <kkzhang@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |kkzhang@suse.com InfoProvider| |antoine.mechelynck@belgacom | |.net --- Comment #1 from kk zhang <kkzhang@suse.com> 2012-10-14 14:28:47 UTC --- Hi,could you please help to provide y2logs according to the following URL? http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bugreport_YaST -- 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=783131 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783131#c2 Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW InfoProvider|antoine.mechelynck@belgacom | |.net | --- Comment #2 from Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net> 2012-10-15 15:16:43 CEST --- Created an attachment (id=509550) --> (http://bugzilla.novell.com/attachment.cgi?id=509550) /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". -- 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=783131 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783131#c Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team-screening@forge.pr |snwint@suse.com |ovo.novell.com | -- 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=783131 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783131#c3 Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |DUPLICATE --- Comment #3 from Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@suse.com> 2012-10-25 11:53:08 CEST --- 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 *** http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=773058 -- 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=783131 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=783131#c4 --- Comment #4 from Tony Mechelynck <antoine.mechelynck@belgacom.net> 2012-10-25 21:31:17 CEST --- (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. -- 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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