Final SuSE 10 install question (I promise)
Last week I posted a question regarding the partitioning of the SCSI HDD on the IBM RS6000 B50 ppc system to allow the install of SuSE 10.1 Alpha 1. None of the suggestions work well and I ultimately had to boot into rescue and use fdisk to construct a partition table manually. So I finally got to the point where the YaST install accepts the disk for use and all that needs to be selected and/or defined has been done. However, I cannot continue because it complains that I have errors that need to be resolved. The ONLY area that indicates a problem is the booting section. It states that a boot loader must be selected. It goes on to say that if none is selected it will default to the ppc loader. I've tried every option that is available including setting its location to the MBR, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda, /dev/sda3, etc. NOTHING seems to be acceptable here. So, before I through in the towel and relegate this machine to the rear of the upper closet shelf, is there anything that I am blatantly missing that would get me by this point of the install? The reason is that I am familiar with SuSE 8 and 9.x on X86 machines (I run several in production) and I've NEVER had this much difficulty installing it before, What should be an hour job has turned into several days so far and that's NOT fun! Any pointers? Thanks
On Mon, Oct 24, Bob Mariotti wrote:
So I finally got to the point where the YaST install accepts the disk for use and all that needs to be selected and/or defined has been done. However, I cannot continue because it complains that I have errors that need to be resolved. The ONLY area that indicates a problem is the booting section. It states that a boot loader must be selected. It goes on to say that if none is selected it will default to the ppc loader. I've tried every option that is available including setting its location to the MBR, /dev/sda1, /dev/sda, /dev/sda3, etc. NOTHING seems to be acceptable here.
Please choose 'Install no bootloader' in the second tab, and configure it manually after install. http://www.opensuse.org/PPC:Boot_pseries -- short story of a lazy sysadmin: alias appserv=wotan
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Bob Mariotti
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