Re: [opensuse-factory] Alpha 4 DOS Partition ?

"M9." writes:

Andreas Jaeger schreef:

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"Günther J. Niederwimmer" writes:

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Hello,

I can't install Alpha 4 on a System with a small (500MB) DOS Partition on /dev/sda1 ? The new installer like to resize the Partition. When I go to manual partitioning I have only EVMS Drives, after reformat the DOS partition to a swap Partition I can install Alpha 4 and I found all my partition in YaST2 Partitioning ?

Is this a known Problem ?

No need for a bugreport: There are quite some problems with EVMS - and we're removing it for Alpha5 again, it causes more trouble during development than it benefits the few openSUSE users that want it,

Andreas

Does this mean: sda, becomes hda again? ( i found it strange that my ide disks became scsi-sata devices...)

No, I meant the text "I have only EVMS Drives"

(if so i am glad, because there is also no backwards compatability towards the old system.

It is not able to mount the partitions (with 10.3 repair) to the system in 10.2. as it is not from 10.2 > 10.3 (not able to mount an existing ext2 partition)) Trying to rewrite menu list did not succeed. Screwing happened after installing 10.2, where there was allready 10.3 A4. Even the installer from 10.3, is not able to start-up the installed 10.3, recognises the fs, but does not recognise the bootimages somehow... Also RPM database maintaining, or rebuilding is not compatible..

Please report those as different issues, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, Director Platform/openSUSE, aj@suse.de SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126