Can't load SuSE 9.3 on new motherboard
Greetings I obtained a newly released Opteron/Athlon64 socket 939 motherboard from SuperMicro. I built the box and put the DVD in and booted. After I get through the installation choices, the installer stops and says it can no longer "see" the DVD/CD reader (panel becomes painted in red). This I tried with every installation choice (acpi on/off, safe mode etc.). I tried loading SLE9 and I got a different problem -- it could not see the SATA hard disk. I suspect that the loaded 9.3 kernel module has trouble talking to the DVD drive because of some chipset issue. I'm surprised that the initial whatchamacallit that boots and starts the installation process has no trouble with the DVD drive. Has anybody conquered this demon? TIA & Cheers
On Thursday 27 October 2005 17:35, Pierre Patino wrote:
Greetings
I obtained a newly released Opteron/Athlon64 socket 939 motherboard from SuperMicro. I built the box and put the DVD in and booted. After I get
What chipset is it?
through the installation choices, the installer stops and says it can no longer "see" the DVD/CD reader (panel becomes painted in red). This I tried with every installation choice (acpi on/off, safe mode etc.).
I tried loading SLE9 and I got a different problem -- it could not see the SATA hard disk.
Does 10.0 work? And is it an SATA DVD? You can check the BIOS setup. If it has something called "legacy IDE mode" or similar enabling that might help.
I suspect that the loaded 9.3 kernel module has trouble talking to the DVD drive because of some chipset issue. I'm surprised that the initial whatchamacallit that boots and starts the installation process has no trouble with the DVD drive. Has anybody conquered this demon?
The initial boot loader uses the BIOS to access the DVD, the later installation requires a Linux driver. -Andi
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thursday 27 October 2005 17:35, Pierre Patino wrote:
Greetings
I obtained a newly released Opteron/Athlon64 socket 939 motherboard from SuperMicro. I built the box and put the DVD in and booted. After I get
What chipset is it?
ServerWorks HT1000 or HT2000. I'm not in my office now so I'll have to find out later.
through the installation choices, the installer stops and says it can no longer "see" the DVD/CD reader (panel becomes painted in red). This I tried with every installation choice (acpi on/off, safe mode etc.).
I tried loading SLE9 and I got a different problem -- it could not see the SATA hard disk.
Does 10.0 work? And is it an SATA DVD?
You can check the BIOS setup. If it has something called "legacy IDE mode" or similar enabling that might help.
DVD is IDE. I'm going to try 10.0 today. I'll also set the BIOS to legacy IDE first. Thanks for that tip.
I suspect that the loaded 9.3 kernel module has trouble talking to the DVD drive because of some chipset issue. I'm surprised that the initial whatchamacallit that boots and starts the installation process has no trouble with the DVD drive. Has anybody conquered this demon?
The initial boot loader uses the BIOS to access the DVD, the later installation requires a Linux driver.
-Andi
I see a chicken-egg issue. IIRC the SLE9 had an option at the bottom to load a specific driver before the installation. Perhaps that is possible with 9.3? Maybe I have to copy the DVD to a disk, operate on it, copy it back to another DVD?
On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:57, Pierre Patino wrote:
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thursday 27 October 2005 17:35, Pierre Patino wrote:
Greetings
I obtained a newly released Opteron/Athlon64 socket 939 motherboard from SuperMicro. I built the box and put the DVD in and booted. After I get
What chipset is it?
ServerWorks HT1000 or HT2000. I'm not in my office now so I'll have to find out later.
Ah that's not really supported in 9.3. Probably not even 10.0. It's a bit strange that the hard disk works and the DVD doesn't though.
I see a chicken-egg issue. IIRC the SLE9 had an option at the bottom to load a specific driver before the installation. Perhaps that is possible with 9.3?
Yes it is.
Maybe I have to copy the DVD to a disk, operate on it, copy it back to another DVD?
The installer can install over the network or from disk. Just chose it on the first screen with the function keys. Or quit yast and do it using the text mode installer, which has also more options for this. If you install it this way please send hwinfo output. -Andi
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thursday 27 October 2005 18:57, Pierre Patino wrote:
Andi Kleen wrote:
On Thursday 27 October 2005 17:35, Pierre Patino wrote:
Greetings
I obtained a newly released Opteron/Athlon64 socket 939 motherboard from SuperMicro. I built the box and put the DVD in and booted. After I get
What chipset is it?
ServerWorks HT1000 or HT2000. I'm not in my office now so I'll have to find out later.
Ah that's not really supported in 9.3. Probably not even 10.0.
It's a bit strange that the hard disk works and the DVD doesn't though.
I see a chicken-egg issue. IIRC the SLE9 had an option at the bottom to load a specific driver before the installation. Perhaps that is possible with 9.3?
Yes it is.
Maybe I have to copy the DVD to a disk, operate on it, copy it back to another DVD?
The installer can install over the network or from disk. Just chose it on the first screen with the function keys. Or quit yast and do it using the text mode installer, which has also more options for this.
If you install it this way please send hwinfo output.
-Andi
OK, SuSE 10.0 worked. The kernel supports the ServerWorks HT1000 chipset. The DVD drive was not an issue since it was the same as five other boxes running 9.3. Also, the BIOS choice for SATA had to be set to MMIO instead of IDE. Now I have to evaluate this motherboard (SuperMicro H8SSL-I) and compare it with the Tyan K8E and decide which one to design into our equipment. Thanks to everyone who helped.
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