[Preston] Suse Linux 9.1 Pro Installation Problems...

[Graham Lee Bevan]

Can you not select the preferred device to boot from in your systems 
BIOS settings?  

Alternatively you can install the grub boot loader on the other disk 
(the one with XP).  Grub can be configured to boot both OSes (see 
/boot/grub/grub.conf).  You should be able to boot the suse install CD 
in a rescue mode, or boot from one of the LiveCD linux distros (I use 
Knoppix), mount your linux disk filesystems then chroot into your 
installed linux.  From there you can re-run grub-install.

regards,
glbevan

Colonel NFT wrote:

>I have now tried to delete the RAID array and use the drives as two
>seperate devices.  I have installed Suse on one drive and XP on the
>other but upon boot GRUB does not appear and boots straight into XP. 
>I installed a seperate boot manager to how the filesystems are
>structured at the moment and it shows Linux on one drive and XP on the
>other with GRUB at the boot sector of the linux drive. Therefore,
>obviously GRUB won't appear.  I will now try to disconnect the first
>SATA drive with XP on it and see if it boots Linux...
>
>In addition, I have downloaded the Via Raid Controller drivers for
>Linux but they are pacakged only for Mandrake, Fedora and Red Hat !!!!
> No Suse Option.....
>
>I will report back my progress but if anyone has any other ideas,
>please feel free to post....
>
>Regards
>
>
>On Sat,  9 Oct 2004 07:18:30 +0100, dave sawyer
><dave.sawyer at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Colonel
>>
>>I have never set SuSE Linux 9.1 up on a machine using SATA raid, but there are
>>three things you need to bear in mind when upgrading a Windows machine to Linux:
>>
>>1) Ensure all your hardware is on the HCL for minimum problems.
>>2) Remember that Linux is a very good system for networking, so that bit is
>>usually quite easy to sort out.
>>3) Unlike Windows, SuSE Linux does not want to take over the world and be the
>>only os on your HDD.
>>
>>Have a lot of fun,
>>Dave.
>>
>>
>>
>>Quoting Colonel NFT <colonelnft at gmail.com>:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Thanks, I have now gone past the point of no return and uninstalled
>>>windows and deleted the array...I realised after doing this that it
>>>was probably becasure that Suse did not have RAID controllers and
>>>after looking closely the F6 option appears during installation giving
>>>you the option to UPDATE DRIVER...
>>>
>>>Oh well, thanks for your reply....
>>>
>>>
>>>On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 09:59:53 +0100, ernie <ernie at casque.co.uk> wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Colonel NFT wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>>>I have two 80gb Hitachi Deskstar SATA drives set up on a RAID0 setup
>>>>>with a software RAID controller.
>>>>>
>>>>>I have WinXP installed on the drive and want to install Suse Linux. I
>>>>>have partitioned the HDD to allow for the installation of Linux but
>>>>>when I boot from the 1st CD, a box pops up saying that \hda could not
>>>>>be read...
>>>>>
>>>>>Is this due to the RAID config ??? If so, is there a way around this
>>>>>without deleting Windows ???
>>>>>
>>>>>Any help would be appreciated ...
>>>>>
>>>>>Regards
>>>>>
>>>>>Barry
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>Sounds like your Suse linux distribution doesn't recognise the SATA
>>>>controller or your motherboard chip set.
>>>>
>>>>I had this problem earlier this year when trying to install Fedora Core
>>>>1 on an nForce2 motherboard with a promise SATA driver. I had to install
>>>>Fedora to an IDE drive and compile kernel modules to see the SATA drive.
>>>>
>>>>I have never used Suse linux but I would think that the latest version
>>>>should support SATA drives. I do know that the latest version of Fedora
>>>>works OK with SATA drives, they show up as scsi drives i.e. /dev/sda.
>>>>
>>>>Ernie
>>>>
>>>>
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