http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627313 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627313#c0 Summary: Unable to boot openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 on Sony Vaio P series netbook Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.3 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.3 Status: NEW Severity: Critical Priority: P5 - None Component: Live Medium AssignedTo: coolo@novell.com ReportedBy: johndyer@acslink.net.au QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 Attempts to boot openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 on a Sony Vaio P series netbook (in particular, a VGN-P720D) are unsuccessful. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Burn a openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 CD from openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686.iso and verify the MD5 & SHA-1 checksums. 2. Attempt use this CD to boot openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 on a Sony Vaio P series netbook (in particular, a VGN-P720D). This is unsuccessful every time. Actual Results: Here are the messages produced when attempting to boot openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 on the Sony Vaio P series netbook: Loading KIWI CD Boot-System... ------------------------------ Creating device nodes with udev Boot logging started on /dev/tty1(/dev/console) at Sun Aug 1 14:33:11 2010 Boot-Logging enabled on /dev/tty3 [ 1.936465] Kernel logging enabled on: /dev/tty4 [ 1.950927] Waiting for USB device scan to complete.................. [ 19.509661] Waiting for CD/DVD device(s) to appear............... [ 36.917986] Failed to detect CD/DVD or USB drive ! [ 36.921512] rebootException: error consoles at Alt-F3/F4 [ 36.924935] rebootException: reboot in 120 sec... A reboot occurs after 120 sec and the same thing happens again. Expected Results: openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 should successfully boot on a Sony Vaio P series netbook, just as the previous version (11.2) does. The openSUSE-11.3-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 CD boots successfully on a range of other PCs. The previous version of openSUSE GNOME LiveCD, version 11.2, successfully boots on the Sony Vaio P series netbook. For comparison here is an excerpt of the messages (without timestamps) when successfully booting openSUSE-11.2-GNOME-LiveCD-i686 from a CD on the Sony Vaio P series netbook: Waiting for USB device scan to complete... Waiting for CD/DVD device(s) to appear... Mounting live boot drive... Mounting compressed unified tree... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.