Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

Net image may lack USB storage and/or file systems support until all this is loaded from network.

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No, that's not it, I've checked - USB storage is fine (/dev/sda) and the file system (JFS) too. It looks as if linuxrc simply doesn't know a) that I want to use an ISO image or 2) how to access the image (loop-mount etc). The network hardware (RTL8723) is not supported, which is why I'm installing from an ISO. /Per

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12 авг. 2015 г., в 16:47, Per Jessen написал(а):

I need a second pair of eyes, I just can't make this work.

I'm booting the NET iso from an SD card, and I want to install from an ISO image on a USB drive. AFAICT, this ought to be sufficient:

install=hd:/openSUSE-13.2-DVD-i586.iso

Doesn't work though - what am I missing? The ISO is on sda1 which is mounted and accessible. Once I return to the installers linuxrc, it keeps asking about a repo, not an ISO.

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Per Jessen wrote:

Per Jessen wrote:

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Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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Net image may lack USB storage and/or file systems support until all this is loaded from network.

Отправлено с iPhone

No, that's not it, I've checked - USB storage is fine (/dev/sda) and the file system (JFS) too. It looks as if linuxrc simply doesn't know a) that I want to use an ISO image or 2) how to access the image (loop-mount etc).

The network hardware (RTL8723) is not supported, which is why I'm installing from an ISO.

Never mind, I'm putting the whole DVD ISO on the SD card.

Which took a while, but didn't get me any further. The SD card (16Gb) has two partitions, efi and the repo, but although I can boot from it, later it isn't recognised by the installation system - I see a message about "mmc1" (the SD card) being identified as a new high-speed SDIO card, but nothing else. The target system is an "Intel Compute Stick" - I know it's brand new, but as it comes with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I figured I would surely be able to install openSUSE over it. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (31.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - your free DNS host, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

This anecdote might be a rat hole, but some sdcard host hardware requires proprietary firmware to work. On my Mac, the UEFI firmware sees and will "boot" (i.e. read the kernel and initramfs) from an sdcard, but after initramfs unpacking, booting some more, and finally getting to the point where it wants to mount rootfs, it implodes as it can't find root fs. I have to install the *wireless* proprietary firmware in /lib/firmware in order for either wireless or sdcards to work in Linux. It's irritating, thank you Apple and Broadcom for... nevermind. Possibly the needed firmware is in Ubuntu and not openSUSE? I don't know what the firmware policies are for each distro but they're all different it seems. There are some firmwares included in Fedora and not others, and for my laptop it's not included with Fedora. --- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:

On 2015-08-12 19:17, Chris Murphy wrote:

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This anecdote might be a rat hole, but some sdcard host hardware

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Possibly the needed firmware is in Ubuntu and not openSUSE? I don't know what the firmware policies are for each distro but they're all different it seems. There are some firmwares included in Fedora and not others, and for my laptop it's not included with Fedora.

:-o

And that firmware is needed to boot from USB sticks? Or only from cards?

sdcards. It's the b43 firmware. If it's not loaded, I get all sorts of mmc related voltage errors in dmesg and the block device simply never appears so there's nothing to mount. This happens maybe 8 in 10 boots. And then even when the firmware is loaded and this works and I can mount the performance is shit. Like 2MB/s for a 90MB/s rated card that under OS X will do 75+MB/s read writes. So, you know, proprietary bullcrap... -- Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 2015-08-12 20:14, Chris Murphy wrote:

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Carlos E. R.

sdcards. It's the b43 firmware. If it's not loaded, I get all sorts of mmc related voltage errors in dmesg and the block device simply never appears so there's nothing to mount. This happens maybe 8 in 10 boots. And then even when the firmware is loaded and this works and I can mount the performance is shit. Like 2MB/s for a 90MB/s rated card that under OS X will do 75+MB/s read writes. So, you know, proprietary bullcrap...

Oh :-( -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)

On 12.08.2015 17:02, Per Jessen wrote:

Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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Net image may lack USB storage and/or file systems support until all this is loaded from network.

Отправлено с iPhone No, that's not it, I've checked - USB storage is fine (/dev/sda) and the file system (JFS) too. It looks as if linuxrc simply doesn't know a) that I want to use an ISO image or 2) how to access the image (loop-mount etc).

The network hardware (RTL8723) is not supported, which is why I'm installing from an ISO.

Did you try to specify instsys parameter which says where installation system comes from? By default it tries to load it from default install source which is network.

/Per

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12 авг. 2015 г., в 16:47, Per Jessen написал(а):

I need a second pair of eyes, I just can't make this work.

I'm booting the NET iso from an SD card, and I want to install from an ISO image on a USB drive. AFAICT, this ought to be sufficient:

install=hd:/openSUSE-13.2-DVD-i586.iso

Doesn't work though - what am I missing? The ISO is on sda1 which is mounted and accessible. Once I return to the installers linuxrc, it keeps asking about a repo, not an ISO.

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On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Per Jessen wrote:

Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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On 12.08.2015 17:02, Per Jessen wrote:

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Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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Net image may lack USB storage and/or file systems support until all this is loaded from network.

Отправлено с iPhone No, that's not it, I've checked - USB storage is fine (/dev/sda) and the file system (JFS) too. It looks as if linuxrc simply doesn't know a) that I want to use an ISO image or 2) how to access the image (loop-mount etc).

The network hardware (RTL8723) is not supported, which is why I'm installing from an ISO.

Did you try to specify instsys parameter which says where installation system comes from? By default it tries to load it from default install source which is network.

No, that option I am not aware of. I used "install=hd:/openSUSE-13.2-DVD-i586.iso"

See https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Linuxrc (install).

Looking at the explanation for "instsys", I am not sure what I would put there?

My understanding is that it is using the same syntax as "install" but I am a bit lost how to specify individual file inside an ISO image ... ... hmm probably install=hd:/openSUSE-13.2-DVD-i586.iso?instsys=boot/i386/root (not sure about exact name right now). -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org