OK, here goes: Old Pentium 166 machine, not able to boot from CD. To make this worse, the machine is 100% SCSI. I found out that you could make boot disks from the CD, including module disks. I can get thru module disk 1, but module disk 2 just hangs the machine. I don't want to call SuSE because I want to also put the software on a different machine, one that I will use much more frequently, as soon as I put it on a LAN, ehich I haven't wired up yet. I will probably need more help with that, but I don't know. Does anyone have any suggestions? At 15:10 04/30/2002 +0000, Uzo Kemdi Anyamele wrote:
On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 09:51, Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Tuesday 30 April 2002 6:22 am, Uzo Kemdi Anyamele wrote:
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 22:47, W.D. McKinney wrote:
Man is this one nice version for SuSE! No problems at all to report. Thanks so much for a job well done .
/Dee
Running Linux since Red Hat 2.0 and SuSE since 5.0.
Hey Dee and others,
Cool Runnings, eh ? I second that.
Just as curious, if you have multi partitions already across different drives.
You see, I have 4 10k SCSI drives with ,I think, 7/8 partitions. All, bar /boot and /extra running REISERFS. And more importantly 2 swaps partitions also.
So, during the upgrade, the system would baulk repeatedly, until I disabled one of the swap partitions.
Can you comment on any ideosyncracies here, no matter how hidden ?
Cheers
I'm having much the same problems with a new install. I have an all-SCSI unit with two drives. The install runs fine but on re-boot I get an 'fsck failed' message, and told to remount the root in RW mode and do the fsck manually. Ok, but doing that doesn't solve the problem. Another reboot and its right back to the same problem.
I was trying to make the root EXT3 and finally gave up on that since I was getting the fsck problem.
I'm about ready to send 8.0 back.
Please, no.... not yet !!
The senerio you described, I encountered also. During install, did you at least try and read your active /etc/fstab file ? i.e if you, like me use the expert partitioning options ?
I think that the default, during update or clean install is for the installer to want to format any disk in its way, but I've always refused it that pleasure , as I have several partitions going back in time that I've always kept and their data and files too.
Just make the /boot default to ext2 and format that. Then try to match the others to what your original layout used to be. And make sure , you've asked for no formating of your precious partitions.
Better still, just post your /etc/fstab here, so we can take a look.
Here's mine,
/dev/sdb3 / reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/sda2 /extra ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/sda3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc2 /local reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 /dev/pda /media/sparQ auto rw,auto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/sdd1 /multimedia reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sda4 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 2 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb2 /usr reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb4 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdd4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 /dev/sdc1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
CHEERS
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