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About a dozen lines or so after starting the install, I encountered the line "Starting udev ..." and the installation hung. (Reported as bug 229217 and unresolved. The status is 'Needinfo', but there is no way to get a log file.) This occurs with both the DVD and CD1.
I had read that disabling ACPI was a workaround. Yes, but: during the installation menu/setup screens, the installer searches for all hardware, but does NOT find any hard disks. I had seen messages about problems with the sata-promise driver, but that is not relevant. The driver turns out to be sata-nv (GeForce 6150LE/nForce 430/MCP51).
I had read that setting 'maxcpus=0' might be a workaround. OK. I was able to install SuSE 10.2. I'm still working of configuring it the way I want. (It would be much easier if the import/export feature of SuSE 10.0 was still available in the Software Manager. There is a long-standing 'critical' bug report, with no progress.)
I was about to post about this very problem. I have a Compaq proliant 6400R and found through this bug report that I could complete my install. https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=204147 Unfortunately, no further updates have been made and this bug still appears to exist in the production release.
My problem is that I now appear to have only 1 cpu available. xosview shows only one, and the hardward list has only 1 entry, and 'top' identifies only 1 cpu. If the 'maxcpus=0' boot option is removed, the computer will not boot. It appears to me that the SMP features of the kernel are all set in the active configuration list.
How can I get my second cpu back? Thank you in advance.
I have found the exact same situation. This is a quad cpu box (PIII) and I would sure like to get all four working again. Note: I'm using the i386 install and I've got a compaq RAID controller instead of SATA. Note2: A lot of these bugs are getting marked as a duplicate of 202079 because the install hangs at the same location, when in fact the symptoms are quite different. This one is specifically related to SMP. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org