YaST2 stops with "Checking system" at ...%

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Symptom:

You are trying to install with YaST2 and the system stops with the message Checking system at a certain percentage.

Cause:

The YaST2 internal hardware recognition has a problem with some part of your hardware.

Solution:

The error diagnostic is described below:

0%-10% searching for USB devices
10%-20% searching for a mouse
20%-30% checking the floppy drive
30%-40% searching for storage controllers (EIDE, SCSI, RAID)
40%-50% checking whether or not kernel modules have to be loaded to access the controllers that have been detected.
50%-100% Checking how many hard disks are attached to the controllers detected. For each of the found disks, fdisk will be called to read the partition table. The 50% left are equally distributed to the number of disks found. This means, that if you have two disks and the screen stops with 75% that YaST2 has problems detecting your second hard disk.

So if the screen stops with 0%, then it is a problem with USB. If it stops with 10% --> mouse ...


Keywords: YAST2, CHECKING, SYSTEM, HARDWARE, ANALYSIS, PERCENT, INSTALLATION

Categories: Installation , Booting , YaST

SDB-cndegen_yast2_error_diagnosis, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany - Version: 11. Jun 2001
SuSE Linux AG - Last generated: 11. Jun 2001 by hmeyer (sdb_gen 1.40.0)