April 2005 - openSUSE AMD64 - openSUSE Mailing Lists

dual boot SuSE-WinXP
by Xermán Soto 21 Apr '05

21 Apr '05

Hello list, I recently did a YOU update of SuSE 9.2 (KDE 3.3) on my AMD64 and now I can't reboot in WinXP having the following error when selecting Windows from the Grub menu: root(hd1,0) Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 chainloader +1 the configuration files are: "menu.lst" ------------- # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Apr 19 14:07:08 2005 color white/blue black/light-gray default 1 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,1)/boot/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows### title Windows root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 9.2 kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 selinux=0 splash=silent console=tty0 resume=/dev/sdb1 desktop elevator=as showopts initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 9.2 kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal noresume selinux=0 barrier=off iommu=noforce maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: memtest86### title Prueba de memoria kernel (hd0,1)/boot/memtest.bin device.map -------------- (hd0) /dev/sdb (hd1) /dev/sda grub.conf ------------ root (hd0,1) install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd1) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menu.lst quit /dev/sda is the windows drive having NTFS on /dev/sda1 perfectly seen when in KDE /dev/sdb is the suse drive having reiserfs on /dev/sdb2. I'm pretty stucked as i've already tried to change menu.lst with options like "savedefault", and "makeactive", but I cannot get windowsXP to boot. The update had something to do with kernel and security updates after 9.2 fresh install, I'm a newbie and did not pay much attention to what was going to be installed and just accepted the YOU defaults. Any kind of help to solve this issue will be appreciated a lot best regards Xermán Soto

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*****SPAM*****
by Ronald Lau 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hey! how long until the ftp mirrors in the states get 9.3? R.

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SUSE 9.3 live DVD and sata drives
by Richard Bragg 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

I've downloaded this beast and it does run on my hardware. Question though is how to show that the real thing will work and not stop on loading the sata_sis.ko module as 9.2 does. What's needed is some sort of boot CD that just does that like the patch CD for 9.2 so can test if it will get further than 9.2. -- Chapter 1 The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

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Help - Suse 9.2 installation on HP xw9300
by Ken Siersma 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi there. I'm lucky enough to have been tasked with the installation of Suse 9.2 on an HP xw9300 workstation. This is a nice machine - dual 250 Opterons 8 GB RAM Nvidia Quadro FX3400 250 GB SATA HD The board is based on the nForce Professional 2200 chipset. I'm having a heck of a time getting 9.2 installed. This is what I do - I have the Suse 9.2 distribution on an IDE drive that I have connected to the machine. I boot with a CD burned with the SUSE-Linux-9.2-mini-installation.iso disk from 29 November 2004, which as far as I can tell is the most recent version of that file. In the installation, a number of things can go wrong. Most involve problems with the nForce chipset, I believe. I choose 'Manual Installation', load the sata_nv module (which it often chokes on - I am not passing any parameters for that module, and often while it says 'Trying to load module "sata_nv", the machine will freeze up and I can only hard reset it - I can't do an Alt-F4 to see what is going on in the kernel.), and load the ext3 module (because that's what's on my /dev/hdb1). If it makes it past the sata_nv loading, everything goes fine until it tries to mount my root partition for installation. I get a 'Could not mount partition /dev/sda2 to /mnt' error. If I flip to a console and try to mount /dev/sda2 /mnt, I get a 'mount: Invalid argument' error. The kernel logs say: ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode reiserfs: using flush barriers ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2) ReiserFS: sda2: warning: journal-837: IO error during journal replay ReiserFS: sda2: warning: Replay Failure, unable to mount ReiserFS: sda2: warning: sh-2022: reiserfs_fill_super: unable to initialize journal space I've tried using Ext3 for my root partition as well, but I get other problems - a InstTarget: E_RpmDB_not_open error on the first package it tries to install. I hope someone can help... Thanks, Ken

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SuSE 9.3 on Fujitsu Siemens V810
by drha/sek 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

Hi, -- is anyone out there who has successfully installed and run SuSE 9.3 on a FSC V810 Celsius Opteron 250, 2 CPU with 8 GM Memory and Bios 1.07? We think of updating from SuSE 9.0, Kernel 2.4.21-280, so my questions are: - Is the Kernel Panic issue which we experienced with SuSE 9.2 (and was also reported on this list) resolved in 9.3? - are Nvidia FX 4000 graphics cards running in accel mode on X.org 6.x? - any other known issues? Thanks, regards, chr.hartmann

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9.3 no sound
by Ray Carlino 20 Apr '05

20 Apr '05

I just installed a new install of 9.3 on a amd 64 machine and I can't get any sound.... 9.2 worked just fine. During kde startup I get a artsmessage of cpu overload -- Ray

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Re: [suse-amd64] Help - Suse 9.2 installation on HP xw9300 / PCI-Express QuadroFX
by Ken Siersma 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Andrew Halliwell wrote: >And verily, didst Ken Siersma announce to the hordes: > > >>I've tried using Ext3 for my root partition as well, but I get other >>problems - a InstTarget: E_RpmDB_not_open error on the first package it >>tries to install. >> >>I hope someone can help... >> >> > >One thing I'll suggest... >Forget ext3 and reiserfs... and try formatting the partitions with jfs. >I had problems with ext2 and reiser on an x86-64 machine just the other >week, in which it'd format the partition but then the thing would fall flat >on its face when trying to write to disk. > >JFS worked fine however... >Once you've got it installed, do an immediate online update to the latest >kernel. That SHOULD fix your problems. > > Thanks Andrew for your helpful suggestion. I have Suse 9.2 running now on this machine, and everything works great except for one thing - the QuadroFX 3400 card. X does work - I had to pass the 'noapic' option to Grub, but it does indeed work with direct rendering enabled. Unfortunately, my OpenGL application is quite flaky on this machine. Frequently, it will stop drawing the scene. It appears to me that the buffers are not getting swapped. If I resize the window, the OpenGL app will return to normal, for a while. Then it will stop drawing again. Also, the app will hesitate intermittenly. This app works flawlessly on other cards, using the same Nvidia driver. The main difference I see is that this QuadroFX card is a PCI-Express card. I know historically AGP is preferred over PCI, but what about this PCI-Express? Are their any known tweaks for a PCI-Express nvidia card? I am getting what I think is good FPS with glxgears -> in the 39500s. Seems really good, actually. But my app is not so great... Any ideas? Thanks, Ken -- Ken Siersma, Software Engineer EKK, Inc. phone: (248) 624-9957 fax: (248) 624-7158 http://www.ekkinc.com -- "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -MLK Jr.

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RE: [suse-amd64] Boot CD for network install?
by Croker, Grant 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

I should have been more specific - this is for SuSE 9.3... ta > -----Original Message----- > From: Croker, Grant > Sent: 19 April 2005 10:50 > To: suse-amd64(a)suse.com > Subject: [suse-amd64] Boot CD for network install? > > Hi, > > is there any chance the boot cd for a networked 64 bit install can be > posted to ftp.suse.com? > > thanks > > grant > > -- > Grant Croker > Computer Associates > Software Engineer, Ingres Development > Tel: +44 1753 242154 (UK) > Mobile: +44 7801 916524 (UK) > mailto:grant.croker@ca.com >

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Boot CD for network install?
by Croker, Grant 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

Hi, is there any chance the boot cd for a networked 64 bit install can be posted to ftp.suse.com? thanks grant -- Grant Croker Computer Associates Software Engineer, Ingres Development Tel: +44 1753 242154 (UK) Mobile: +44 7801 916524 (UK) mailto:grant.croker@ca.com

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PCMCIA Wireless card
by David 19 Apr '05

19 Apr '05

I have been trying to get a second wireless card to work in my hp laptop with a 64 AMD. I have not been successful at all. I have found that I believe that SuSE is mis detecting the orinoco gold card that I am trying to use. When that card is plugged in I get the following. When it is not plugged in these lines are not in the system log. Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs 2>&1' Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: + FATAL: Module memory_cs not found. Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: modprobe exited with status 1 Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: module /lib/modules/2.6.8-24.14-default/pcmcia/memory_cs.o not available Apr 18 16:50:55 DsHP cardmgr[6463]: bind 'memory_cs' to socket 0 failed: Invalid argument I have never had a problem with the orinoco gold card and SuSE. I have used it with 9.1 and 9.2 but only the 32 bit version. I am now using the 64b version. Any ideas? David

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