Roland Hill wrote:
Hi Patrick,
* Patrick Shanahan
[26-12-04 09:22]: Tried to install it along side my 8.2 Pro setup, but after 2 hours of letting Yast churn, I gave up.
Put a formatted (vfat) floppy disk into the disk drive
Thanks for this tip, however on further investigation, reviewing console 4 during install, it appears that the 'churn' I referred to is due to a cyclical repeat of an ide error on hda.
In case anyone is interested, or can help further I noted down the following:
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error} hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound } LBAsect=39167615, sector=39102336 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector 39102336
That's most of it, and I've never seen this before, and have no idea why 9.2 has an issue, yet 8.2 does not.
A very quick search from the list archives didn't turn up anything, but to be fair is was very quick. I'll keep looking and googleing!
My trouble on the XP3000+ was an ATA100 HD it point blank failed to install on, it was my 9.1 drive and I'd tried upgrade and fresh install without reformatting, but it was happy with an ATA133 that I had rsync'd over from the ATA100 and done a fresh install without reformatting, on the XP3000+ laptop, I went around in circles, then for no reason, it worked, another ATA100, on the P-II/333 laptop with an ATA100, no problem. I wonder if you could boot from knoppix, timos rescuecd or may be in rescue mode on the SuSE CD/DVD and format the drive, then mkreiserfs, mkswap and have another go. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====