Ken Schneider wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 22:46 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 19:35 -0800, Scott Leighton wrote:
On Monday 28 March 2005 7:09 pm, Felix Miata wrote:
SuSE's /var/log/boot.msg, which has no Mandrake counterpart, bears little resemblance to Mandrake's /var/log/boot.log, and has no value for this diagnostic exercise. I need to get SuSE to generate a similar file to do me any good.
Did you try a Mandrake list to solve your Mandrake problem?
First thing to do was make the boot messages show up on SuSE, so that's why I started here. Then it became apparent there were overlapping issues. The project is really all about figuring out this game of so many devices pretending to be SCSI. On this particular motherboard, there is ICH6 support for up to 6 ATA devices. The OS shouldn't be pretenting any devices connected to those ports are anything but ATA devices. I doubt it's a problem tied to any specific distro.
Further, it looks like you have the mount points messed up. I would start there to try to solve the problem.
I know this is the problem. I'm trying to figure out why it's a problem, what's at its root. One might suggest I try installing a newer SuSE and see if it behaves the same. I expect it would, because I think it is the 2.6 kernel that is responsible, with 2.4 behaving as expected, but 2.6 pretending SATA is PATA. If so, it can't be done, due to an artificial obstacle: the SCSI 16 partition per device limit. I have plenty disk space, but the partition count is already 37, and all the freespace is above #18. SuSE is working because it's using hda18 for /. If I try to put another on hda19 and the kernel thinks the device is SCSI, it won't work. -- "In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you." Matthew 7:12 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/