Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 schrieb Joe Morris (NTM):
On 12/30/2007 03:57 AM, Theo Wollenleben wrote:
Thank you for pointing my attention to the libata problem. Indeed when I start the Live CD with 'hwprobe=-modules.pata' no system freeze will occur. Apparently this boot parameter has no effect on an already installed system.
Actually it does, but I suspect not what you were expecting.
So if anybody knows how to disable libata without to reinstall, please tell me. I don't want to reinstall openSUSE 10.3 because the last time I went through the installation procedure one of my partitions was cleared from all data...
You will need to change your drives device naming to correspond to the older method, i.e. hdx for ide, sdx for scsi (including cd and dvd drives) instead of sdx for drives and srx for optical (replace x with letter for drives and numbers for optical [no partitions]. This will need to be done in /etc/fstab, /boot/grub (at least menu.lst and device.map, as well as your modules used for your initrd in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and rebuild your initrd. Probably best to do all that after booting into the rescue system mode. HTH.
I used the YaST sysconfig editor to replaced 'pata_via' by 'ide_disk' in INITRD_MODULES and changed my drives device naming in /boot/menu.lst, /boot/device.map and /etc/fstab (sda -> hda, sdb -> hdd in my case). It seems to work fine. Now ide drives are named /dev/hd* and there are no system freezes any more while reading the secondary IDE channel. Instead of booting into the rescue system mode I did this within the normal booted system. There also was no need to disable the secondary IDE controller as Felix suggested. Thank you all for the help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org