2007/9/9, Carlos E. R.
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The Sunday 2007-09-09 at 18:52 -0300, Juan Erbes wrote:
I downloaded the dvd, which took two whole days. I boot the dvd. It asks for my language (US), but not for the keyboard (ES), which is a nuisance. It searches the partitions, sees there are disks with more than 16 partitions, and pops a large warning, recommending to reboot the install with kernel option "hwprobe=-modules.pata".
Do'nt be misery, buy a new hard disk!
What for?
Actually, it is a new disk, less than a year old. But PATA, of course.
The disk can be pata, but if the hard disk controller has 6 years old (tending to obsolete), I mean it is ide type, then the conflict betwen ide/pata.
Notice that new disks are bigger than old disks, and will possibly have more partitions. Some people have reported using more than 40 partitions, and I understand they are using SATA in emulated PATA mode precisely because they use lots of partitions.
In my computer, it has 4 modes: 2 for raid mode. 1 ide native emulation 1 ahci If I set it to "ide native", the systems ignores it and asumes ahci.
I can access the cdrom if I mount it manually and search its contents. It is Yast who says it can't. There is no need to insmod anything.
What chipset has Your mobo?
I don't remember. The mobo is MSI circa 2001. That's not related, I'm not the only one having the exact same problem, according to bugzilla. Check #218122 and #305095, for instance.
Its related the chipset, because it can be a buggy version, or it can be obsolete, and is no more supported (as You said circa 2001). Regards --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org