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

[Colonel NFT]

Graham,

Boot options in BIOS are Floppy, HDD, CD-ROM, SCSI device...I have
tried SCSI and HDD but I presume that once the SATA drivers are
installed then the drives will be recognised as SCSI devices.....


On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 10:55:03 +0100, Graham Lee Bevan
<graham.bevan at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> 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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