Recovery using Suse 9.0 Patch-CD
How would one go about this if all your drives are SATAs and you aren't getting even a whisper of a boot? The Patch-CD recovery doesn't seem to detect the hard disks (i.e. I cant mount them). The normal Installation does it without a hitch, but it only allows reinstallation, not repair of existing systems. Manual install, the only other viable option, locks up looking for an info file or something. Very frustrating (especially since I know I'm probably missing something glaringly obvious again.) Eugene PS If you have/want an AMD 64bit system, stay away from Radeons above 9000, (especially 9600s, they are the devil). _________________________________________________________________ G-string or thermal underwear? Find out at MSN Weather! http://www.msn.co.za/weather/
"Eugene de Villiers"
How would one go about this if all your drives are SATAs and you aren't getting even a whisper of a boot? The Patch-CD recovery doesn't seem to detect the hard disks (i.e. I cant mount them). The normal Installation does it without a hitch, but it only allows reinstallation, not repair of existing systems. Manual install, the only other viable option, locks up looking for an info file or something.
Why do you need to recover? Just go for normal installation and then switch to text console 1 or two instead of doing anything, you'll get a root shell...
Very frustrating (especially since I know I'm probably missing something glaringly obvious again.)
Eugene
PS If you have/want an AMD 64bit system, stay away from Radeons above 9000, (especially 9600s, they are the devil).
9200 should be fine... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On February 02, 2004 04:31 pm, Eugene de Villiers wrote:
PS If you have/want an AMD 64bit system, stay away from Radeons above 9000, (especially 9600s, they are the devil).
Mind if I ask something "off-thread"(while I still remember about it :)? Is it possible to get 32bit ioctls working with the standard 2.6 kernel? I have a Radeon 9000(from my older box, I've given up on the FX5200 until a proper release :), which only works with 32bit opengl apps with the SuSE's 2.4.21 kernel(drm_ioctl32 module), and I'd really like to have it in 2.6...
Sergei Klink
On February 02, 2004 04:31 pm, Eugene de Villiers wrote:
PS If you have/want an AMD 64bit system, stay away from Radeons above 9000, (especially 9600s, they are the devil).
Mind if I ask something "off-thread"(while I still remember about it :)?
;-)
Is it possible to get 32bit ioctls working with the standard 2.6 kernel? I have a Radeon 9000(from my older box, I've given up on the FX5200 until a proper release :), which only works with 32bit opengl apps with the SuSE's 2.4.21 kernel(drm_ioctl32 module), and I'd really like to have it in 2.6...
The 9000 should also work with 64-bit opengl applications on SuSE 9.0. And those 32-bit ioctls should be supported in 2.6 - if they're not currently, please tell me and let me file a bug report, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
On Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:46:58 -0700
Sergei Klink
On February 02, 2004 04:31 pm, Eugene de Villiers wrote:
PS If you have/want an AMD 64bit system, stay away from Radeons above 9000, (especially 9600s, they are the devil).
Mind if I ask something "off-thread"(while I still remember about it :)?
Is it possible to get 32bit ioctls working with the standard 2.6 kernel? I have a Radeon 9000(from my older box, I've given up on the FX5200 until a proper release :), which only works with 32bit opengl apps with the SuSE's 2.4.21 kernel(drm_ioctl32 module), and I'd really like to have it in 2.6...
The DRM in 2.6 doesn't support 32bit emulation right now. I don't know when it will be ported from 2.4. -Andi
On Tue, 03 Feb 2004 07:54:21 +0100
Andreas Jaeger
Is it possible to get 32bit ioctls working with the standard 2.6 kernel? I have a Radeon 9000(from my older box, I've given up on the FX5200 until a proper release :), which only works with 32bit opengl apps with the SuSE's 2.4.21 kernel(drm_ioctl32 module), and I'd really like to have it in 2.6...
The 9000 should also work with 64-bit opengl applications on SuSE 9.0. And those 32-bit ioctls should be supported in 2.6 - if they're not currently, please tell me and let me file a bug report,
They aren't right now. -Andi
On February 02, 2004 11:54 pm, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
The 9000 should also work with 64-bit opengl applications on SuSE 9.0.
Sorry, bad wording :) 64 bit apps work just fine(except 24bit(color) mode gives some visual problems, but that's a separate issue(probably not exclusive to amd64 drivers, haven't checked))
And those 32-bit ioctls should be supported in 2.6 - if they're not currently, please tell me and let me file a bug report,
It seems they're not(but I'm not even close to fully understanding ioctls or anything related, so it might be something else :) I can't reboot right now, I can get the exact error messages tomorrow(I used 2.6.1(with and without x86-64.org patches),2.6.2rc3 with the same results) This is from nvidia drivers(without the workarounds :)(=no direct rendering)), but the error I got was something similar(I replaced the device name already): (trying to start Wolfenstein:ET) ioctl32(et.x86:2715): Unknown cmd fd(10) cmd(c14046c8){01} arg(5c163fe0) on /dev/dri/card0 And it reverts to software rendering(giving the warning accordingly). 64bit apps work fine with both kernels. No such problems with 2.4.21-178 kernel.
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:56:11AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
PS If you have/want an AMD 64bit system, stay away from Radeons above 9000, (especially 9600s, they are the devil).
9200 should be fine...
But beware of the 9200SE, that one doesn't work with open source drivers at all at the moment. (Yes, I bought one. They're cheap fortunately.) -- Vojtech Pavlik SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
Vojtech Pavlik
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:56:11AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
PS If you have/want an AMD 64bit system, stay away from Radeons above 9000, (especially 9600s, they are the devil).
9200 should be fine...
But beware of the 9200SE, that one doesn't work with open source drivers at all at the moment. (Yes, I bought one. They're cheap fortunately.)
You have to tell XFree86 that it's a 9200, then everything should work according to our experts here... Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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