On Monday 28 August 2006 02:50, John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 27 August 2006 22:41, Carl Hartung wrote:
You are confirming my assessment of the situation... incorrect driver.
Well I've heard of suse using one driver at configuration time and a different one at post-install boot up in the case of PCMCIA cards, but I've never heard of installing with one disk controller driver and then booting up with a different one.
After all, if the install went well, the driver obviously worked. Why would they switch?
Because the installation kernel is a completely different animal. It's job is to boot and initialize whatever hardware it happens to 'wake up' in then supply the necessary install/repair tools. It might use a generic driver that you don't want 'permanently' installed... not optimized? ... outdated? etc... The installer is obviously configuring an incorrect module. It depends on a lot of things... how accurately it detects the mainboard and/or chipset... but it could also be a legitimate bug, too. In any event, the next step after definitively identifying the hardware is determining what is the correct module... is it provided by SUSE directly or proprietary and obtained elsewhere, etc. regards, Carl