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SUSE installation woes with a SATA disk
- From: Colin Fraser <Colin.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:52:38 +0000
- Message-id: <41E7C096.6010006@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi all,
Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began!
I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution I've used on other machines since it was released.
Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go.
From much reading I believe I need the libata:ata-pix module loaded first but, when I try it, the installation won't proceed without module arguments for ata_pix.
Despite much googling I can't find a description of these arguments anywhere.
Can anyone oblige please?
Colin
Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began!
I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution I've used on other machines since it was released.
Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go.
From much reading I believe I need the libata:ata-pix module loaded first but, when I try it, the installation won't proceed without module arguments for ata_pix.
Despite much googling I can't find a description of these arguments anywhere.
Can anyone oblige please?
Colin
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