elefino wrote:
I have repeatedly had a problem getting even the DVD itself to be accepted as the Install Source. I installed originally from the commercial DVD, and I had not done anything to change the Installation Source, so that whenever I updated/installed something (say, from Packman), and the system needed to get something from the install media, it would look for the DVD. When the prompt appeared, I would either already have the DVD inserted, or I would insert it and say "Try again". It would fail. A number of people and articles (found with Google, along with responses on this list) suggested various settings that I should attempt in YaST, as well as direct editing of /etc/fstab and other files.
None of it worked (very likely because of my mulish failure to understand simple directions....), until I stumbled upon an old message exchange in which somebody advocated running the Repair function.
I did so, and then ran an installation from Packman of several dozen packages. The system got to the point where it wanted to see the DVD... and this time it *found* the DVD and completed the installation.
However, the next time I went to Packman for whatever-was-new, the problem resurfaced. I again performed a Repair. As with the previous time, the system noted a boot-loader problem, but since the system was booting properly, I took the suggestion and skipped a bootloader repair.... again.
Same as before, when I restarted, the software install/update was again able to find the DVD when it needed it. But some days later it was failing again.
This last time, I performed a Repair again, and accepted to repair the bootloader. There was no obvious problem, and I continued. However, the summary reported that there was still a bootloader problem. Therefore, I entered that section of Repair one more time and explicitly visited each page and option of the dialog (didn't change anything, just poked at some pick-lists, set to a new setting, then immediately back to the setting that had been there before) and then saved.
Finally, the Repair summary went all the way through with no complaint. I have once more gone to Packman, picked out some juicy packages that I didn't already have installed, and had the system look for and actually FIND my DVD. With luck, this time the fix will stick.
So, with all that said, Sergey might want to get that DVD from his friend *one* more time, boot from DVD, proceed through the Install process until he gets the option to perform a system Repair, and run the repair. Keep poking at it until the repair summary comes back clean (no further errors reported), save and exit. That might solve the problem.
There's also the possibility of a defective hard disk. Several people at our office, with recent DELL desktop PCs have had hard disk failures, and mine is starting to make funny noises... :-)
Kevin
Kevin, I did that System repair(after the first failure) from the *my friend's DVD* and unfortunately it gave me an Error when trying to repair hda6.