Hi Marc, First question: do you have some Linux experience or are you a Linux newbie? On 31.12.21 05:08, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hello - I started a thread on the OpenSuSE users mail list, and it was suggested I move the thread over here to the factory mail list in the hope that some of the developers will take note of it and perhaps offer a solution or some advice. In a nutshell I am unable to install either OpenSuSE 15.3 or 15.4 Alpha on an HP laptop that has Windows 10 Pro, and a 1TB SSD card with Optane memory. The thread can be followed here -
https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/users@lists.opensuse.org/thread/D3F...
I glimpsed over it. I stopped after some people suggested it might be a rotating-rust drive inside (with an NVME interface??? No way) and to remove the optane module m( This advice is most likely totally wrong. You *might* remove the optane module *temporarily* later if we find out that the installer has problems with it, but I doubt that Linux will be interested in it. It will most likely just ignore it (or offer to install into it, but that should not be done ;-)) Most likely Larry Len Rainey's diagnosis is right: Firmware setting the controller into "raid" mode, causing it to be not easily manageable by linux. This would be probably in line with the error you are seeing about a "MdContainer" not being deleted. This is likely not about a docker container -- I don't think YaST knows anything about docker yet -- but about a md as in "multiple devices" -- Linux softraid -- "container", an agglomeration of disks, as which the windows raid setup is detected, but can't be managed. *IF* you have some experience in Linux (and do not mind reinstalling your windows installation...), then I'd suggest to boot with a Live System USB stick of Leap 15.3, there you can examine the system in more detail and maybe even repartition it wihtout reinstalling windows (Linux *might* actually be able to handle the Windows RAID thing, but the YaST installer might not). You could even try this with a Tumbleweed Live medium or 15.4 alpha, which might have newer tools. If your linux experience is low, then using VirtualBox as a Hypervisor and running openSUSE virtualized, as also suggested by Larry, might be a solution which gets you the best of both worlds.
It was also suggested that I submit a bug report but I will hold off until someone on this list tells me to do so.... I will much appreciate it if some of you can take the time to read this thread and get back to me with your thoughts, ideas, and suggestions.
A bug report is still a good idea, because the gained insights and data are later available for the development team in a condensed form. Nobody is later going to read the mailing list threads (I did not even dare to read the opensuse-users thread until its bitter end after lots of nonsense was suggested in there ;-)) Good luck! And have a lot of fun... Stefan -- Stefan Seyfried "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." -- Richard Feynman