Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (194 mails)

[Ken Siersma <siersmak@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi there.

I'm lucky enough to have been tasked with the installation of Suse 9.2 
on an HP xw9300 workstation.  This is a nice machine -

dual 250 Opterons
8 GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX3400
250 GB SATA HD

The board is based on the nForce Professional 2200 chipset.  I'm having 
a heck of a time getting 9.2 installed.

This is what I do - I have the Suse 9.2 distribution on an IDE drive 
that I have connected to the machine.  I boot with a CD burned with the 
SUSE-Linux-9.2-mini-installation.iso disk from 29 November 2004, which 
as far as I can tell is the most recent version of that file. In the 
installation, a number of things can go wrong.  Most involve problems 
with the nForce chipset, I believe.  I choose 'Manual Installation', 
load the sata_nv module (which it often chokes on - I am not passing any 
parameters for that module, and often while it says 'Trying to load 
module "sata_nv", the machine will freeze up and I can only hard reset 
it - I can't do an Alt-F4 to see what is going on in the kernel.), and 
load the ext3 module (because that's what's on my /dev/hdb1).  If it 
makes it past the sata_nv loading, everything goes fine until it tries 
to mount my root partition for installation.  I get a 'Could not mount 
partition /dev/sda2 to /mnt' error.  If I flip to a console and try to 
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt, I get a 'mount: Invalid argument' error.  The 
kernel logs say:

ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first 
block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max 
trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2)
ReiserFS: sda2: warning: journal-837: IO error during journal replay
ReiserFS: sda2: warning: Replay Failure, unable to mount
ReiserFS: sda2: warning: sh-2022: reiserfs_fill_super: unable to 
initialize journal space

I've tried using Ext3 for my root partition as well, but I get other 
problems - a InstTarget: E_RpmDB_not_open error on the first package it 
tries to install.

I hope someone can help...
Thanks,
Ken