John wrote:
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.
If you are installing onto a system with no built-in RAID etc., I'm 99% certain SUSE will have no problem. Most of my systems have no built-in RAID, and on those that do, it's disabled. I've never had a problem installing 10.3, except for the issue with the MD RAID version in the superblock that I mentioned earlier.
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.
Possibly - although if you google for 'linux ich7 raid', it doesn't look too rosy.
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.
John, to be honest, the problem you've _barely_ outlined is most probably not a real problem. But, you've disabled the ICH7 RAID, so if your box doesn't install cleanly now, you really need to open a bugreport. Alternatively, you can provide us some real diagnostics to work on, and we can help you work it out. I spent a number of years writing system software in assembler for IBM S/390 - if a customer asked us to diagnose a problem, but neglected to provide a dump or a trace or refused to set up a SLIP trap, well ... /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org