SATA: 9.0 patch CD does not work for me
Hello, I am building a brand new box (K8T master with a VIA SATA controller and one Opteron) and since I saw that SuSE provides a patch CD with the SATA drivers I bought two SATA drives (Samsung). I downloaded the iso image of the patch CD and burned it. Now, I can boot with the 9.0 patch CD and I can pick my menu point from the bootloader (installation). Yast starts nicely and I can pick my language. However, on the next step, Yast searches eternally for the harddisk controllers! The hourglas is milling around but nothing happens. If I pick a different menu point (driver modules instead of installation) and check which drivers are loaded then there are some sata drivers. Still, the installer hangs. Be aware that I have no IDE disk in this box! Yes, I could buy one and probably compile a kernel with the right modules but this is somehow a lot of work and it does not feel like a clean solution. Besides, I would have to stand the jokes of my wife, who is an NT administrator :-) Well, I think I need a bit of help... regards, einar
* einar
Hello,
I am building a brand new box (K8T master with a VIA SATA controller and one Opteron) and since I saw that SuSE provides a patch CD with the SATA drivers I bought two SATA drives (Samsung). I downloaded the iso image of the patch CD and burned it. Now, I can boot with the 9.0 patch CD and I can pick my menu point from the bootloader (installation). Yast starts nicely and I can pick my language. However, on the next step, Yast searches eternally for the harddisk controllers! The hourglas is milling around but nothing happens.
If I pick a different menu point (driver modules instead of installation) and check which drivers are loaded then there are some sata drivers. Still, the installer hangs. Be aware that I have no IDE disk in this box! Yes, I could buy one and probably compile a kernel with the right modules but this is somehow a lot of work and it does not feel like a clean solution. Besides, I would
Probably, you won't find any other modules...
have to stand the jokes of my wife, who is an NT administrator :-)
She doesn't have any 64bit (operating-) system at all.... ;-)
Well, I think I need a bit of help...
It would be nice to have some more information: the messages on console 3+4, and the output of dmesg.
regards,
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Hello, I got a step further: If I pick the installation with ACPI disabled then Yast feels happy and I can install (silly me, I should have tried that one earlier). The installation works fine until the first reboot. Here, the system hangs. Shutting down the box and rebooting, I get a kernel panic where the system claims to be unable to mount the filesystem. Ok, I thought maybe the initrd is not correct and struggles with reiserfs. I remember having had similar problems in the past with older SuSE versions. I reinstalled again using ext2 but with the same effect. Next attempt, I tried the rescue system of the 9.0 patch CD. Rescue systems were never my strong side but I tried to mount one of the harddisks manually. This did not work, I got an error in the direction that sda1 is not a valid block device. I cannot say if I screwed up with the mount or if the HDs are really not accessible (mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/test ok?). Sorry for the lacking details (dmesg etc) but without a working system I am a bit out of my water. My next steps: I am going to install Win XP. I planned for a dual boot anyway and this will give me a second opinion about my hardware. I am about to download another distro and I shall try with that one as well (if a free download should succeed where my shiny 145 CHF SuSE DVDs fail then I would be slightly pissed... :-) ). Once again, any helpful suggestion is welcome. regrads, einar
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