Morten Bjørnsvik wrote:
|From: Rui Santos [mailto:rsantos@ruisantos.com] |> Can you explain more? Does this mean to use a special |installation CD |> and then some how redirect6 to a 10.2 DVD? |> | |Yes. That was the only way I managed to install openSUSE... I |also had a problem with the ata_piix driver recognizing my |PATA devices with my ICH5R.
Lots of mb's seem to have the ide driver incorporated into the jmicron sata controller. It means you can't access ide after extracting the install kernel enclosed on suse10.2 DVD. since the jmicron driver is missing(using a generic sata driver).
My ICH5R's IDE driver is not controlled by jmicron, but through the ata_piix or ata - And it controls both SATA and PATA. And yes, after the install kernel is extracted and the system is rebooted, the PATA devices will not work. The workaround for that was to add http://software.opensuse.org/download/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_10.2/ to the list of install repositories, install that kernel instead of the one contained in the openSUSE10.2 DVD. This way, if the Kernel contained in that repository solves your problem, then you're ready to roll...
If you install to a sata drive you can use the network image from http://download.opensuse.org/ and point installation to http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/ to omitt ide alltogether.
After installation ide worked fine.
Lucky you... :)
-- MortenB
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