Re: [suse-amd64] Installation of Suse 9 for AMD64
Hy, I didn´t got any replies to my problem ... Is anyone aware of my problem ? I think I'am not too far from the solution but I'am still sticking in step three ( look below ) Any comments will be appreciated ... Regards Francisco -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hy,
I'am back to report my experiences by installing Suse 9 AMD64 on my K8V deluxe with two 1614c drives system ...
What exactly are you doing? With which disk are you booting?
Per first, I'am booting from the ISO CD ... OK, a little summary from my experiences from the last few weeks ... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. I booted with the Original Suse DVD ... Result: No installation possible with SATA Decision: Prepare the new ISO CD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. I booted with the new ISO CD with idle=poll Result: I achieved YAST but no recognition of SATA Decision: Try this rcLinux menu and select SATA driver -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. I select the VIA SATA Driver from rcLinux and boot Result: Now YAST did recognize my drives, but going on in the installation process with the SUSE proposal is not possible. Also manual config of the drive leads to the same message. This message indicates, that there is a modification needed before the install process can go on ... Decision: Any ideas ... ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don´t know if the problem is in partitioning my drive. As I formerly said: I've got two Samsung Spinpoint 1614c 160 GB SATA drives. Both are partitioned in each two partitions. C: WinXP NTFS ~75 GB F: empty FAT32 ~75 GB G: empty FAT32 ~75 GB H: empty FAT32 ~75 GB As you may see, I obviously have no problem in reserving a whole drive for Linux. I also have no technical explanation, but I think changing the partition data will not solve my problem ... What do you think ? Any comments will be appreciated !!!!! Regards Francisco
On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 francisco.vegas@ksb.com wrote:
I didn�t got any replies to my problem ... Is anyone aware of my problem ? I think I'am not too far from the solution but I'am still sticking in step three ( look below )
Any comments will be appreciated ...
Howdy Francisco, I just spent 3 weeks getting my sata drive to work, and now I've broken the modem and printer!! So even if you get your drives to work, it ain't over... so first question is what south bridge chip set do you have on your motherboard? It may well be that no linux driver has been written for it to work with sata yet. If there has, it will be relatively new and buggy, so you still have to be careful. Once you get the correct driver installed you may need to rebuild the kernel to take advantage of it. To do that you'll need a functioning disk, so it may well be worth your while to go buy the cheapest EIDE drive you can find and plug it into your machine so you can at least boot the standard distro. This is what I ended up doing, and it's worked so far (at least I can see the sata drives, I haven't moved things over to boot from it yet). Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike
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francisco.vegas@ksb.com
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Mike Rosing