https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=332266#c15
Tejun Heo changed:
What |Removed |Added
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CC| |teheo@novell.com
Severity|Blocker |Critical
Status|NEW |ASSIGNED
--- Comment #15 from Tejun Heo 2007-10-28 21:43:56 MST ---
The error is primarily caused by the kernel in the installation media failing
to detect the optical drive. Beginning from openSUSE 10.3, we've switch from
ide to libata drivers for all ATA device including PATA and SATA.
Unfortunately, libata PATA drivers sometimes cause problems where IDE drivers
worked okay.
Passing the following parameter to the installer makes it skip all libata PATA
drivers and fall back to IDE drivers.
hwprobe=-modules.pata
These failures are dependent on which chipset is used. Please do the
following.
1. Boot installation media w/o any parameter specified.
2. After booting completes (yast complains it can't find installation source),
switch to console 9 by pressing (ctrl-alt-f9), you'll see a root command prompt
there.
3. connect a USB drive to the machine and mount it to /mnt by running "mount
/dev/sdX1 /mnt" where /dev/sdX is the USB disk. You can determine it by
running "dmesg" and looking at the detection message. If the USB disk uses
ext3fs, you'll also need to run "modprobe ext3" before mounting.
4. Run the following commands.
# hwinfo --all > /mnt/hwinfo.log
# dmesg > /mnt/dmesg.log
# cp /var/log/boot.msg /mnt/boot.msg
5. unmount USB disk by running "umount /mnt"
6. reboot into any system where you can use internet.
7. file a separate bug report with the chipset name included in the subject and
assign it to me and attach the three files in the USB disk.
SL103 is already out, so this can't be a blocker bug by definition. I'm
adjusting the severity to critical. Thanks.
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