söndag 07 november 2004 05:37 skrev Stan Glasoe:
On Saturday 06 November 2004 9:06 pm, Burleigh, Frank wrote:
I made a bootable Suse CD, boot, then run the installer, giving it an ftp source for the 9.1 distribution. Install goes well except yast wants only a / and a swap partition. I partition like this:
- sda1 /boot 100mb primary - sda2 extended - sda5 swap 768mb - sda6 / everything else
Keeping swap to physical RAM size or a wee bit larger is all you need unless you know of programs/processes that you run that need more. A separate /home directory is an easy way to do upgrades in the future. Helps preserve your user settings as long as you remember to not format it!
I've just had to go through this a few times, for the pats few days. And now, again, as I upgraded to 9.2. What ya need to do, is boot with the installation CD, and when it asks you what you want to do, select 'Boot the installed system'. This part, will figure out correctly how to boot the installed system. Once you're inside the installed system, do 'grub-install /dev/sda' ... and you're ok. The problem is related to GRUB not having the correct system. It probably is set to think that you're running (hd3,3) or something similar, basically because the drives used to be named hde-hdh (IDE) and hda-hdd (SATA) ... with the 2.6 kernel. Then it was fixed to hda-hdd (IDE) and hde-hdh (SATA). And finally now to hda-hdd (IDE) and sda... (SCSI + SATA). A bit confusing, don't ya think. As far as I can tell, there's a bee wee problem with how YaST detects SATA, with GRUB installer. HtH, Örn