Update: I gave up on my built in controller and purchased Adaptec SATA Connect (ASH-1205SA). This works perfect with Linux software RAID and does not cost a lot of money. -m Marcin Zalewski wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to install SUSE 9.3 on Asus SK8N motherboard running Opteron. I use the built-in Promise SATA controller with two disks in IDE mode.
I was able to perfectly run SuSE 9.1 on this system for a long, long time. Now, with SuSE 9.3 I am not even able to get through the installation. It seems that the disk access causes the installation to hang sooner or later. When files are being copied the installation just freezes.
It seems that this problem is not specific to SUSE. Any other distro with 2.6 kernel that I tried freezes in the same way as SUSE.
Does anyone have a success story installing SUSE 9.3 on a similar setup? And also, is there some way that I can save kernel messages during installation?
Thanks,
Marcin Zalewski