RE: [SLE] Cannot install 8.0
Hi, It would be interesting if you could post the error messages that you can see when doing Ctrl-Alt-F4, after an installation breakdown. Regards, Jostein
===== Original Message From Michael Norman
===== Hi I can boot from the dvd but all of the variuos install methods seem to end in failure of one sort or another, mainly dropping packages after about one third in, hanging at some point or the red "some error" screen. Setting PIO to 0 in BIOS made no difference. The cds work slightly better than the dvd in the same dvd drive (Relysis) but not reliably enogh to complete an install.
Using the cds in my HP cdrw drive throughs up less errors still but I've still not been able to complete an install. I did try doing a trial install of 7.3 into different partitions than my main 7.3 set up and upgrading that to 8.0 using the cds in th cdrw. It seemed to work once but when I eventually rebooted to it I got kernel error messages including an oops and a kernel panic. At this point and after manay many hours of aborted installations I gave up and deleted the lot. LILO is on the mbr by the way and when I do a test install I add the new kernel using my main set up. Usually works.
Mike
I'll need to do the fresh 7.3 update to 8.0 again and log all the errors and post back. --- Jostein Berntsen
wrote: Hi,
I have experienced some of the same problems. While I had not any problems installing 7.1 and 7.3 and booting on CD/DVDs, 8.0 seems to be very picky on the hardware setup or BIOS something somewhere. Because of the Pioneer problem 8.0 would not boot on my DVD at all, so I had to use the CD's.
My partial solution was to go into the BIOS and set the PIO mode for the CD-ROM to 0. Then I escaped the red dialog box saying 'Error occured...', when YasT rebooted after installing about 400 of 700 packages. Then the packages from CD1 was installed, but YaST did not ask for CD 2 or 3 so I had to install some packages after the installation had finished, among them Koffice. After that I was able to get the system back and running.
Since you dual-boot you might also check where Lilo is installed, and if Grub or some Windows bootloader is causing problems for the installation.
Hope this wil be some help for you...
Some input links:
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/swiegra_bootdiskette80.html
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/wessels_pioneerdvd.html
Regards,
Jostein
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Hi
I hope you have the patience for this : I've just
done the following :
Attempts to perform a straight install :
All of these are an attempt to install the minimum
graphical selection into /boot /swap and / which I
keep as partitions for test installs. This has always
worked before.
1. DVD in DVD drive - standard installation -
standard pio setting in bios -power management off.
Started to drop packages at 43 % and hung at 83 %.
error (ctl alt f4) : end_request: i/o error, dev 16:00
(hdc), sector ..a lot of numbers
2. Cd in DVD drive safe setting. Started dropping
packages (same ones) at 43% hung at 83% on reisferfs.
error (ctrl alt f1) badalloc (insufficient resources
for operation major episode 45 resource id 45 resource
id 0X600254
3. as before but changed PIO to 0, failed to find
mouse and hung.
4. as above tried apic enabled : no splash screen :
hung
error (ctrl alt f4) apm set display powerman disabled
5. as above man installation same failure
6. as obove but reset powerman in bios. Started to
drop packages again at 43% failed on reiserfs.
errors as before.
I went on to try the cds in my cdrw drive and more or
less repeated most of the above with some additions ie
that sometimes I got thrown into a graphical install
which I find too fiddly in yast2 to bother with.
Conclusions : I accept that cd drives can be
unreliable and flaky, as I?m now on my 3rd or 4th of
both dvd and cdrw drives. Once thaey go forget it.
But I can still install 7.3 from both. Dropping
packages starts at the same point in both drives from
both dvd and cdrw and this is my second set of 8.0,
SuSE having supplied a replacement when I reported the
first set as faulty. I don?t suspect a hardware fault
as 7.3 still installs.
Has anyone else come close to this experience ? Do I
have two sets of broken discs ? I can post the
hardware details later if anybody thinks that would
help.
I've tried lots of other combinations as well. See
what you think. I'll try a test 7.3 and update later.
--- Jostein Berntsen
Hi,
It would be interesting if you could post the error messages that you can see when doing Ctrl-Alt-F4, after an installation breakdown.
Regards,
Jostein
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