On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 00:58 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 13:47 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
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I found out last night that SLED is like M$ XP where it will not boot on a computer on which it was not originally installed. Install it on one computer and try to run it on another and... you get the 2-finger salute.
Not the case! I do this all the time. I have found that even if the drivers needed in initrd are not there, you can install the hard disk, boot with the SUSE install CD/DVD, and select to have the system checked. It will actually do a new hardware scan and update initrd and whatever else is needed. This is one damned impressive SUSE feature.
So, if the new machine has different hardware or any difficulty, try this. Remember that even if the hardware is the same, you may have differences in the BIOS that make hard disks look different.
You are talking about SLED and not OpenSUSE? I am talking about SLED.
Granted my experience is for OpenSUSE, and 'regular' SUSE before that., but I cannot imagine this would be removed for SLED. This has been in SUSE since 9.x. Maybe earlier, but that is when I noticed it. I think it is available via a button on the bottom of the first screen before the regular install boots. I can agree that it is not made too obvious.
Doing the Repair, or even booting into and existing installation, using a CD/DVD does not get SLED 10.0 booted- it keeps claiming that it cannot find hda1 (where it's installed and is the only OS installed).
What exactly is hda1? Some sort of SATA? There are some BIOS settings for this in respect to how the disk is seen. If the BIOS is set one way, the disk can be assigned to the SCSI sub-system. In another mode, the SATA driver must be more involved and it is not seen as a SCSI disk. I can check the details if you want. I had to sort this out to get SATA hot swapping working.
But put the same HD into the computer on which SLED was originally installed and- voila! hda1 miraculously becomes visible to SLED!
Cheers.
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