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Re: [suse-amd64] SATA: 9.0 patch CD does not work for me
- From: einar <einar_linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2004 16:33:28 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <405337A2.30501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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
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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