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

Mon Oct 11 13:16:36 BST 2004

Thanks Dave, I will try that...Whilst I am posting would anybody be
interested in a GMail Account which is currently in its beta stage ...
let me know if you are interested and I will send you an invite.

Regards

Barry

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004 10:10:34 +0100, dave sawyer
<dave.sawyer at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> 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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