Strange as it may sound, could it be perhaps that the reiser module is not being loaded when you did the module load (prior to CD reading, etc.)? Try adding reiserfs.o to your list of modules to load from floppy. Reiser is not compiled into the default kernel. It is a module to the kernel. Perhaps the reason ext2/3 worked is because that most likely IS compiled into the kernel. The rule of thumb I always use is /boot gets ext2, / gets reiser. Of course, I could be full of sh*t, but it's worth a try. I install on all kinds of SCSI drives all the time, and never have a problem, but then I install by booting the CD (which does load the reiser module during boot). --Jon Robison On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 07:35, William Wolfe wrote:

Hi Antoine,

Merveilleux, merci beaucoup !!

Yes, just by using a different file system type YaST is able to continue the installation on my SCSI hardware. It is rolling away right now, loading from the CD.

So the learning experience from this is that Reiser FS is not compatable with Wide SCSI disks ? That seems to exclude a lot of SCSI users from the benefits of the FS type that is selected by default by the YaST partitioning tool. I think I should look a bit more into the different FS types supported by SuSE, and look for the best compromise of good use of space, journaling and fault tollerance and something that works with my hardware. I also need to read up about LVM on Linux, because on some of my machines I will want to stack up the SCSI disks. But that is further up the learning curve.

Now how do we go about making an addition to the product documentation ? There is no mention of the significance of the FS type and your hardware in the User Guide. I had a look in the Administrators Guide, and FS types are discusses in the appendinx at the back, but I didn't notice any mention of limitations with SCSI in the ReiserFS section. Should this be added to the SuSE Support Database as an article ? Is there some other knowledge base that accumulates this sort of wisdom ?

Thanks again. I can't wait to start clicking away on the KDE screen. All the Best, William.

Theytaz Antoine <Antoine.Theytaz@gmvs.migros.ch> wrote: hello William,

your kernel seem to hang when dealing with reiserfs filesystem (module) and your SCSI controller/disk

So try choosing the ext2 filesystem instead of reiserfs, just to see what's happening this time :)

Antoine

-----Message d'origine----- De : William Wolfe [mailto:w_j_wolfe@yahoo.co.uk] Envoyé : lundi, 13. octobre 2003 10:31 ÃEUR : suse-autoinstall@suse.com Objet : [suse-autoinstall] Terrible trouble installing SuSE 8.2

HELP, please.

This is my first installation experience of linux, after years as a Windows + UNIX user. I am using the SuSE 8.2 Professional CD installation, having just bought it on Saturday.

I am making a commitment to move away from Windows after a year of virus scares and systems crashing frequently. It sounds like Linux has come a long way in recent years on the desktop and availablility of friendly apps. I'm really looking forward to getting it working.

So I set out on a fresh start with Linux. I started the install using a floppy bootdisk that I downloaded, with a couple of module disks until the CD takes over. (This PC won't boot from CD) Using YaST, I deleted the partitions used by Windows and manually created partitions to load SuSE. But it doesn't seem to matter if I create the partitions or take what is suggested, after formatting the partitions of the hard disk, the installation comes to a halt when YaST tries to mount the partitions. I keep getting stuck at this point :-(( and cant seem to get round it. Please help.

I get a pop up error message saying

YaST2

Could not mount partition /dev/sda4 to /mnt/.

Continue if you know what you are doing, but it would be safer to reboot and try again.

If I click continue it pops up a similar message for the next partition. If I click the other buttons it hangs.

I'm quite confused about what's going wrong. Some discussions I read suggest problems with the partitioning information. Others hint at bugs in the YaST utility.

If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very greatefull.

I had manually created the following partitions using the partition features for YaST

All are primary partitions.

/dev/sda1 in format EXT2 23.5Mb for /boot

/dev/sda2 in format swap 258.8Mb for swap

The rest in format reiserfs for / root, which becomes /dev/sda4

Here is some more information from other screens, and the specification of the PC is at the bottom.

I tried searching the web and the SuSE Support Database, but even after trying the following solutions I can't get round this problem.

SDB Manual Partitioning with YaST2 http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thallma_y2_partition.html

SDB Partitioning for SuSE Linux http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thallma_partition.html

These discussions seem to show the same symptom, but don't show a solution :-

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Jul/2625.html

http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Jun/3234.html

Just before launching the install I swtiched the display

When I examine screen Ctrl + Alt + F2

and used a command to confirm the contents of the partition table

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 4294 MB, 429467293 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders

Units = of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sda1 1 3 24066 83 Linux

/dev/sda2 4 36 265072+ 82 Linux

/dev/sda3 37 62 208845 83 Linux

/dev/sda4 63 522 3694950 83 Linux

After seeing the error message I tried to use this screen to manually mount the partition with this command

# mount -v /dev/sda4 /

mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for

I will try type reiserfs

(Which is fine because that is what I specified when creating the partition )

When I examine screen Ctrl + Alt + F3 I see good progress until the last few lines which are as follows...

Setting up localhost.....done

going for automatic install

mount: /var/adm/mount/boot/root: we need a loop device

mount: using /dev/loop0

rmmod usb-storage

starting /mounts/instsys/sbin/inst_setup yast

When I examine screen Ctrl + Alt + F4 I see steady progress then a full screen of data as the mounting begins.

Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB #1 Wed Apr 16 14:50:03 UTC 2003

Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: CPU: 0

Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] Not tainted

Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246

and so on........

The last lines read..

Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: Modules: [(reiserfs::)]

Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: Code: Bad EIP value.

Thank you in advance for your help.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers, William.

Pentium P160

64 Mb memory

Micron Electronics Motherboard

PhoenixBIOS

SCSI Adapter card AHA-2940 ULTRA/ULTRA W

Hard disk CONNER CFP4207SV 4.28Gb

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