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Problem 1. The 740
It seems we have different vintages of 740. Some of the older machines have an irritating problem with a panic...
We had a few dell dying after 3 year and 10 days almost at the same time. Take a look at the caps of the condensators on the motherbord. If the top is black and bent through them away.
http://lists4.opensuse.org/opensuse-bugs/2009-05/msg04704.html ... which we got past, but now I seem to have an issue where some of them go through to the first boot, then come up and land at the grub> prompt. Grub can correctly identify HD(0,0) or HD(0,1) (yes, I trued moving swap & root partitions around) as being a Maybe grup and mount see different disk translations - a long time ago I had a dell where for some reason the LBA ( correct word ? ) was not correct. A fdisk showed an error message. Sorry - do not remember the solution.
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Problem 2. The 760
I'd installed on a 760 a number of times (testing builds) when suddenly it gakked in the partitioning section. No obvious reason why - rebooting it cleared the error. <odd>. Then it did it again. Now it's consistent. I don't know why it changed - the behavior sometimes changed with a power cycle.
The 760 doesn't have a floppy - rather, it has a 4-card reader that handles SD, CF cards etc. These devices are presented as SCSI disks (albeit with no media in them).
Its simply the load order or availabillity of modules. I would suggest to set the bios to ide mode and load the ide driver first. (During installation via command line or info file ) To have the correct order after the installation you must change the initrd . Example from a OpenSuse 10.3 echo "INFO: task running in an chroot environment" # Tune system before first reboot - must run in chroot environment echo "INFO: rebuild initrd for EVO , DELL GX2[0-9]0 and Precsion WS boards" hwinfo --bios | egrep -iw "evo|gx2[0-9]0|WS.*360" | grep -iq "Product" if [ $? = 0 ] ; then # Load drivers to access the disk . /etc/sysconfig/kernel INITRD_MODULES="piix ide-generic ide-core ide-disk "$INITRD_MODULES perl -p -i -e "s/INITRD_MODULES=.*/INITRD_MODULES=\"$INITRD_MODULES\"/" /etc/sysconfig/kernel mkinitrd perl -p -i -e "s/resume/ insmode=ide-generic resume/" /boot/grub/menu.lst # Enable 32 IDE mode after reboot echo "hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda" >> /etc/init.d/boot.local fi
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