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hi,
Trying to install Suse 9.3 on Dell PowerEdge 1850. Gets to main options screen and then tells me it can't detect hard drives. I've installed RH9 and RH7.2 sucessfully on this machine without a hitch..
Any ideas?
Did this occur with the Safe Install/Failsafe installation option too? Have you tried the manual installation option and manually loading the drive (if it's a choice)? From Dell's specs, it appears to be a dual-processor, or dual-processor capable, system. Have you tried passing some apic boot parameters? Such as: enableapic lapic apic SMP systems handle interrupts differently and you might need to account for this during the installation. You can check on [CTRL] [ALT] [F3] and [F4] for yast and kernel messages. This might reveal some useful information. From console [F2] you can try manually loading the driver ("modprobe mptscsih"). Check back on console [F4] for any further error messages about the driver-load attempt, if it fails. The following commands from console [F2] will show useful hardware information: lspci -vvv hwinfo --scsi hwinfo --storage_ctrl And have a look through /var/log/boot.msg for anything related to SCSI and/or resource problems. -- /Paul "It's not about the ending, it's about the journey." - Lex Luthor