I've just installed (several times) 9.1 Personal to a circa 1998 P450 box like this: - IBM 18gb scsi drive on an adaptec 2940, int13 extensions are ON - no IDE drives except the CDROM - floppy - 384mb - latest available bios (not very ;-), probably in Intel board with BX chipset I made a bootable Suse CD, boot, then run the installer, giving it an ftp source for the 9.1 distribution. Install goes well except yast wants only a / and a swap partition. I partition like this: - sda1 /boot 100mb primary - sda2 extended - sda5 swap 768mb - sda6 / everything else The machine boots as far is "GRUB" in the upper left of the screen, usually with the floppy's light stuck on. Then it sits, flashing its cursor at me and accepting no keyboard input. I can boot to the CD Rom's "system recovery." I can mount /boot which seems ok to me. Fdisk -l shows me about what I expect to see from the partition table (except "W95" is in the extended partition's description, I think). I start grub, giving it the commands "root (hd0,0)" then "setup." It seems happy. I then tell it "kernel /boot/vmlinuz" then boot which does change my command prompt but I'm not sure what to expect there. Reboot gives no love--same problem with GRUB flashing a cursor at me, with no grub menu. I commented out the floppy in menu.lst and even turned off the floppy in the bios. No better. I believe I've started from scratch a couple times. I'd welcome your analyses and advice. I don't suppose there's a 9.2 personal to work with? ;-)
On Saturday 06 November 2004 9:06 pm, Burleigh, Frank wrote:
I've just installed (several times) 9.1 Personal to a circa 1998 P450 box like this:
- IBM 18gb scsi drive on an adaptec 2940, int13 extensions are ON - no IDE drives except the CDROM - floppy - 384mb - latest available bios (not very ;-), probably in Intel board with BX chipset
I made a bootable Suse CD, boot, then run the installer, giving it an ftp source for the 9.1 distribution. Install goes well except yast wants only a / and a swap partition. I partition like this:
- sda1 /boot 100mb primary - sda2 extended - sda5 swap 768mb - sda6 / everything else
The machine boots as far is "GRUB" in the upper left of the screen, usually with the floppy's light stuck on. Then it sits, flashing its cursor at me and accepting no keyboard input. I can boot to the CD Rom's "system recovery." I can mount /boot which seems ok to me. Fdisk -l shows me about what I expect to see from the partition table (except "W95" is in the extended partition's description, I think). I start grub, giving it the commands "root (hd0,0)" then "setup." It seems happy. I then tell it "kernel /boot/vmlinuz" then boot which does change my command prompt but I'm not sure what to expect there.
Reboot gives no love--same problem with GRUB flashing a cursor at me, with no grub menu. I commented out the floppy in menu.lst and even turned off the floppy in the bios. No better.
I believe I've started from scratch a couple times. I'd welcome your analyses and advice.
I don't suppose there's a 9.2 personal to work with? ;-)
Have you tried Failsafe Mode for boot? It turns off apm, acpi, dma and other stuff for a real basic boot environment. That machine may have never heard of acpi and if it did it was an early/buggy release. Or it could be the Adpatec driver. Search this list via google for info on that. A separate /boot partition really isn't necessary any longer. Not since SUSE 8.1 or so. If /swap is the first partition its also the fastest. I'd recommend: sda1 /swap 384-512MB sda2 extended sda5 / at 9G sda6 /home the rest of the drive Keeping swap to physical RAM size or a wee bit larger is all you need unless you know of programs/processes that you run that need more. A separate /home directory is an easy way to do upgrades in the future. Helps preserve your user settings as long as you remember to not format it! There is no 9.2 Personal. It was dropped this time around. Stan
söndag 07 november 2004 05:37 skrev Stan Glasoe:
On Saturday 06 November 2004 9:06 pm, Burleigh, Frank wrote:
I made a bootable Suse CD, boot, then run the installer, giving it an ftp source for the 9.1 distribution. Install goes well except yast wants only a / and a swap partition. I partition like this:
- sda1 /boot 100mb primary - sda2 extended - sda5 swap 768mb - sda6 / everything else
Keeping swap to physical RAM size or a wee bit larger is all you need unless you know of programs/processes that you run that need more. A separate /home directory is an easy way to do upgrades in the future. Helps preserve your user settings as long as you remember to not format it!
I've just had to go through this a few times, for the pats few days. And now, again, as I upgraded to 9.2. What ya need to do, is boot with the installation CD, and when it asks you what you want to do, select 'Boot the installed system'. This part, will figure out correctly how to boot the installed system. Once you're inside the installed system, do 'grub-install /dev/sda' ... and you're ok. The problem is related to GRUB not having the correct system. It probably is set to think that you're running (hd3,3) or something similar, basically because the drives used to be named hde-hdh (IDE) and hda-hdd (SATA) ... with the 2.6 kernel. Then it was fixed to hda-hdd (IDE) and hde-hdh (SATA). And finally now to hda-hdd (IDE) and sda... (SCSI + SATA). A bit confusing, don't ya think. As far as I can tell, there's a bee wee problem with how YaST detects SATA, with GRUB installer. HtH, Örn
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