On 2007/09/20 00:44 (GMT-0600) bugzilla_noreply@novell.com apparently typed:
--- Comment #25 from Andreas Jaeger
2007-09-20 00:44:01 MST --- See the release notes
They don't say what one should find in /dev as a result of running activate_dm_linear or what if anything people running >15 on SATA can do or expect. Tentative release notes for 10.3 seem to be nicely hidden, not yet on http://en.opensuse.org/Release_Notes. It would be nice to see http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.2/RELEASE-NOTES.en on http://en.opensuse.org/Factory and/or http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version
(and bug # 305095)-
I've been following that and every other related bug (keyword >15). Most of what's in them seems pretty cryptic. I would expect running activate_dm_linear /dev/sda at the start of an RC1 install should produce some evidence that anything happened in /dev, but I don't see it.
and use "hwprobe=-modules.pata" to not use libata at all.
I don't see how that could be of any help on SATA systems with >15 partitions. I already use it on PATA.
The workaround from Hannes needs some more work we will do for RC2 - but even then it will not be nicely integrated and only something for a real hacker.
From what I can tell in the relevant bugs, activate_dm_linear seems simple enough for an unreal hacker to manage. I've been ready for quite some time if only I could find functional guidance on what to do or evidence that anything resulted from what I did.
This needs more work for 11.0.
Obviously. :-p I feel like the progress so far is behind a locked door to which the public key is hidden by secret code, or doesn't exist.
The general advise really is to use hwprobe=-modules.pata - this works just fine.
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