On Monday 06 December 2004 10:40, Anders Norrbring wrote:
As a matter of fact, Hans, it is.. It's an old Compaq Presario with Intel 440BX chipset and a Pentium-III 500MHz CPU, 512MB memory.
Your idea of "old" and mine are worlds apart! :-) My workstation is something like this - "test" machines tend to be early P-IIs. A company close by sell "refurbished ex-corporate" desktops. They're mostly Pentium II, but good machines - compaq desk pros and similar level HP machines. Often they have dual graphics cards, sometimes dual cpus, and mostly SCSI discs.
My "oldest" production platform is an Athlon XP 2000+, older than that are classified as test boxes.. ;)
I find another problem from time to time. My work machine has two SCSI discs and one IDE. SUSE is installed on the two SCSIs, the IDE is my /home. In 9.1 I had to remove the IDE disc to be able to install. In 9.2 I was able to install, but after running doing the kernel update in YOU, grub can't find anything. I just says something to the effect of "can't find (hd0,0)/boot/messages
I've had similar issues from time to time. Installing on SCSI and adding IDE renders the system either unstable or unbootable. After drinking several gallons of single malt whiskey I came up with a solution that's worked for me, it's usually in the system BIOS boot order you need to look. Most systems will allow you to set for example 1-Floppy, 2-CDROM, 3-Hard drive. Not enough! You'll also need to go into the BIOS section where the "Hard drives" are specified, every default BIOS setting I've seen puts all IDE hard disks as the first listed, then the BIOS lists "secondary stuff" like "Bootable add-in card" (Yep, that's your SCSI), I've simply changed the internal hard drive order to be SCSI (Bootable add-in card) as the first hard drive in the boot order, then the IDE drives. Worked for me... Anders.