Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2391 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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