https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249873#c13
--- Comment #13 from darren winter 2007-08-13 06:39:01 MST ---
my brother (asus a8n32-sli) finally successfully installed to his sata drives
and setup a software raid without any problems... but he had to manually
disable his nvidia raid in his bios. until he did that, suse always attempted
to install to /dev/mapper devices and grub (and lilo) always failed miserably.
once nvidia chip was disabled, suse no longer saw or tried to use /dev/mapper
devices.
similarly, i (asus a8n-sli deluxe) made sure my nvidia raid setting was
disabled in bios, which it has been since i first got my computer (i disabled
it immediately), however, suse must still see my nvidia raid chip (somehow -
even thought it IS disabled) because every time i try to install to my sata it
instantly shows /dev/mapper devices, and several installation attempts have
failed. i am back on ide as we speak. i just can't get past the /dev/mapper
junk. all i get is: Error 23: Error while parsing number.
i can mount that drive and get any logs you need, just tell me the file names
that you want me to include.
basically, if the nvidia chip is enabled (and some cases even if it is
disabled, asd in my case), suse fails to properly setup grub. sadly, the
installer doesn't test the grub installation during the most obvious time (when
you are setting up your boot loader and partions) - instead we have to wait 45+
minutes for the software installation to complete just to find out that the os
is fully installed but completely unbootable.
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