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

[dave sawyer]

Colonel,

Just a thought - you could always try ringing/mailing SuSE's tech support 
people, at least you can then find out if the problem is solvable or not.

Also, you could try checking the knowledge base at www.suse.co.uk - it's 
unlikely that you are the first person to encounter this problem.

Regards,
Dave.


Quoting Colonel NFT <colonelnft at gmail.com>:

> 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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