On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Bob S <911@sanctum.com> wrote:
On Tuesday 19 February 2008 09:50:40 am Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Feb 19, 2008 12:18 AM, Bob S <911@sanctum.com> wrote:
On Monday 18 February 2008 09:37:03 am Felix Miata wrote:
On 2008/02/17 23:49 (GMT-0500) Bob S apparently typed:
Yeah, when they made the switch there were a bunch of us screaming about the partition limitation. We were told, "Don't Worry" that will be fixed. I've got half of a 250 GB disk that I wanted to install SUSE 11 on but only three partitions. That ain't gonna work!
The kernel devs apparently think lvm and dm are able to provide solutions, that it isn't the job of the kernel to provide backward compatibility for upgrading systems that already have partitions >15. :-(
Nice of the kernel devs to decide what is best for all of us.
At least for now YOU are in control, not the kernel devs.
They have taken nothing away and the traditional IDE drivers are being very actively supported. Suse has them in their kernels for 10.3 (11.0 I don't know about).
The kernel devs added a parallel development track a copy years ago, so now there are 2 drivers for the vast majority of PATA (IDE) controllers. It is YOUR choice whether you use the traditional set or the new set, nobody else is making decisions for you.
So if you don't like the new way, use the old one. (As described in the release notes from day one.)
Obviously, SUSE (Novell) had to make a choice of what the default driver set for 10.3 should be. They choose the leading edge set. That is pretty consistent with the opensuse philosophy from what I've seen. I for one am very happy to see them moving forward, and if I need extra partitions, I can add a boot flag, update my grub setup, and fstab entries.
Boot flag?? I am totally unaware of that and have no idea what that does. Will that allow me to add partitions to my 125GB of free space? Can you explain more and point me at some docs/how-to's??
I've never actually used the boot flag, but it is hwprobe=-modules.pata It is described to some extent in the 10.3 release notes. And per Felix, this is still working in 11.0 alphas. Note that this will not work if your controller does not have a traditional drivers/ide driver. Specifically, a lot of sata controllers have pata emulation mode that is supported with the traditional driver set. But if you have the bios set not to emulate you need a real sata driver. Same is true if your controller does not offer an emulation mode. I don't believe you will find any of those in the traditional drivers/ide subsystem. Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org