[PLUG] SuSE 9.3 Install - "Searching for info file..."

Alan alan at clueserver.org
Tue Jul 12 10:04:25 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 21:40 -0700, Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> I burned and checked the MD5SUMS for the 5 CD's for a SuSE 9.3 install and am 
> attempting to use them on a Gateway machine: 350 MHz Pentium with 128 MB of 
> RAM and a 6 GB hard drive. 
> 
> The first CD loads, and I select "Installation" from the first screen. The 
> Kernel loads, I press <ESC> to get more information and watch as it gets up 
> to "Searching for info file...", which happens right after "Activating usb 
> devices", the first step in "Starting hardware detection...". 
> Then it sits.
> 
> I did a Google search:
> 
> "Searching for info file" site:http://lists.suse.com/archive/
> 
> and found a number of entries. One comment recommended putting a floppy in the 
> drive. I found a file named info.txt on the CD (by looking at it on this 
> machine), and copied it onto a floppy formatted with an EXT2 file system. 
> This did not appear to help.
> 
> Another comment from the Google search suggested switching to the console 
> screen <Ctrl><Alt><F3> before the process hung. When I did that, I watched 
> insmod run through a number of steps. The last few lines on the screen read:
> 
> --------------------------------------
> insmod /modules/usb-storage.ko
> Hardware probing finished.
> floppy: /dev/fd0
> got info from cmdline
> insmod /modules/piix.ko
> Ok, that seems to have worked. :-)
> Looking for a SUSE Linux CD...
> --------------------------------------
> 
> (That smiley is part of the message!)
> 
> Any ideas on what to try next?

Looks like it cannot find the CD drive.  What kind of drive and what ide
interface is it on?  Is the CD drive using "cable select"?  (If so,
remove the CS jumper.)




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