Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2391 mails)

[John <john_82@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 May 2008 18:13:50 Per Jessen wrote:
> John wrote:
> > > How do you define "unraid" ?  You probably didn't change the
> > > partition types.
> >
> > I split the discs and reset the bios to none raid etc.
>
> I think we're having a terminology issue here - splitting the disks
> sounds like something one does with a chisel and a hammer?  :-)
> Now that you mention the BIOS, I'm wondering what kind of RAID you
> really used - does your motherboard have its own RAID facility?  Using
> that is very often asking for trouble.  When you said "fake RAID" I
> took it to mean "Linux MD RAID", but if this is something you've set up
> in the BIOS, all bets are off IMHO.
Think you have missed the point - I came to the conclusion that suse just 
wouldn't accept intel ich7 soft raid so I disabled it completely and suse 
still insisted on trying to raid it and Grub still threw errors. Actually I 
wouldn't be at all surprised if the the linux io available at boot is 
perfectly capable of handling ich7 raid - the only problem being the data 
passed to grub by the install.
> > > > Out of interest a number of people on the web seem to think that
> > > > ntldr is the way forwards.
> > >
> > > The internet has room for all kinds :-)
> >
> > Maybe so but some of them are actually sensible.
>
> In this case, only if you also use Windows.  I gave that up with W2K.  I
> don't know what ntldr is nor does, but I'm doing fine with lilo.

:) I haven't used XP for maybe 2 years and hardly used it for a lot longer 
than that but there is some software that wine can't cope with that I will 
need to run at times. Given the recent addition of ext3 drivers for xp it may 
also be useful for other things too. I have it, I payed for it, I may as well 
install it. I won't be buying vista. (I might when dated oem discs get cheap 
but having used it I don't like it.)

Should also point out that I would like to see linux being used by more and 
more people. Hence my rant aspect. I can't help it. The problems I have 
outlined are enough and have put a lot of people off. That is a bit sad to 
say the least. Also the fact that it will cause suse to slip. Sad it was THE 
rock solid desktop software installation and may still be but how can people 
find out about that if they can't install it on truly common hardware.

John

> /Per Jessen, Zürich


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