Well, my problem is in the subject....
10.0 OSS hangs on the install at "searching for info file". It activates the USB and 1394 ports then hangs @ "searching for info file" and goes no further.

Currently I am running Suse 9.1 and I wish to upgrade. I have searched and read through several threads of others with similar problems (typically on Dell laptops??). My machine is a custom built and I have NEVER had trouble installing Suse before. I have tried redownloading and multiple times from different mirrors. I have tried using the online install boot disk and it still hangs.

Is there a solution to this problem??

Hardware:
Soyo KT-400 Platinum
AMD 2600+ barton
nVidia GeForce4 ti4600
Sound Blaster Audigy 2
1GB PC2700 SDRAM

I get no hardware errors whatsoever that I have seen.

I read a suggestion that this could be caused by SATA or RAID motherboards... I have no SATA on my board but the drive is in a RAID slot (no raid enabled though -- so it acts as another IDE connection). This was no problem when I installed 9.1 a while back... is this a new problem isolated to the newer kernel?

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Any solutions out there?

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I had the same problem! IF you press F3 (I think) for Advanced Options in boot, and type ide=nodma in the options, it should work.

For anyone else having this problem - ide=nodma is the answer.

I was able to get passed the 'searching for info file.....' hanger the first time i used this string.