Hi Arjen,
Thanks for the advice, but booting from the patch CD with *normal* (or any)
install does not even drop into expert mode.
It just hangs after displaying the kernel panic line.
Should I be doing something else?
How do I load the modules in expert mode. I've never seen expert mode before
as it's never got that far!
Please excuse me if I ask stupid questions, I really am not that experienced
in hardware, and things at OS level.
Thanks Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arjen Runsink"
Hi Andrew,
Quoting Andrew Mason
: Booting with the patch CD gives me this message: crc error<6>ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide VFS: Cannot open root device "" or 03:06 Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:06
Ok iirc same chipset, but different mobo here.
My walkthrough as far as I can recall it. Install media is a local nfs/ftp mirror.
Boot from patch CD choose the *normal* install that one will bomb and drop into expert mode in expert mode load the modules sata_via (or was it via_sata) and the modules for the nic and others maybe.
Then go to install and choose network install etc.
....
Then at 1st reboot again boot from patch CD and do same as above, but this time choose boot from installed OS (after module loading) and give the root fs.
After install fully done install the (kernel etc) rpms from the directory Patch CD *from*and*ftp*mirror* of SuSE (patch CD iso somehow is borked, well mine was anyay)
Add the sata_via module to the initrd option in /etc/sysconfig/kernel
run mkinitrd
fingerscrossed and reboot.
You now own the map, the elixer of life and the spell to expell XP.
Otherwise can anyone give a prediction how long it will be before Suse supports SATA properly?
The SuSE kernel already does (from Patch CD) and the mainstream kernel from 2.6 does which will be on 9.1 which will be out soon (release is set beginning of May iirc)
Hth
BB, Arjen
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