Hi List, Well Santa dropped off 9.2 Pro for me which was great! Tried to install it along side my 8.2 Pro setup, but after 2 hours of letting Yast churn, I gave up. The system is a P4 1.7GHz desktop. I disabled APM and ACPI in the BIOS, and also tried the install without ACPI option. Still very slow. Can anyone here offer any pointers? As much as I'd like an excuse to buy new hardware, I'm not quite ready to go down this path just yet. -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:35:35 +1300, Roland Hill
Hi List,
Well Santa dropped off 9.2 Pro for me which was great!
Tried to install it along side my 8.2 Pro setup, but after 2 hours of letting Yast churn, I gave up.
The system is a P4 1.7GHz desktop. I disabled APM and ACPI in the BIOS, and also tried the install without ACPI option. Still very slow.
Can anyone here offer any pointers?
As much as I'd like an excuse to buy new hardware, I'm not quite ready to go down this path just yet.
-- Regards,
Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org
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How much memory have you got? My 9.2 works fine on P3-1Gig+512Mb of RAM.
Hi martin,
* martin mcleod
How much memory have you got? My 9.2 works fine on P3-1Gig+512Mb of RAM.
640Mb of RAM. No issues with 8.2 Pro, Ubuntu, Yoper and older versions of Redhat stuff. -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 08:55:24 +1300, Roland Hill
Hi martin,
* martin mcleod
[26-12-04 08:50]: How much memory have you got? My 9.2 works fine on P3-1Gig+512Mb of RAM.
640Mb of RAM. No issues with 8.2 Pro, Ubuntu, Yoper and older versions of Redhat stuff.
-- Regards,
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No problems there then. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this. Sorry I couldn't help. Only the Livecds(9.2) caused me any trouble.
regards, martin
* Roland Hill
Tried to install it along side my 8.2 Pro setup, but after 2 hours of letting Yast churn, I gave up.
The system is a P4 1.7GHz desktop. I disabled APM and ACPI in the BIOS, and also tried the install without ACPI option. Still very slow.
Can anyone here offer any pointers?
Put a formatted (vfat) floppy disk into the disk drive -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
Hi Patrick,
* Patrick Shanahan
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! -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org
Roland Hill wrote:
Hi List,
Well Santa dropped off 9.2 Pro for me which was great!
Tried to install it along side my 8.2 Pro setup, but after 2 hours of letting Yast churn, I gave up.
The system is a P4 1.7GHz desktop. I disabled APM and ACPI in the BIOS, and also tried the install without ACPI option. Still very slow.
Can anyone here offer any pointers?
As much as I'd like an excuse to buy new hardware, I'm not quite ready to go down this path just yet.
9.2 can be a dog to install, once installed, it's solid. You didn't say where exactly it hangs or if there are any messages. One of the VT's, may be VT4 should also display some messages - I'm guessing it hangs after saying Starting YaST. It certainly sounds like a hang, perhaps trying a non-graphical install as another angle is advised. Your luck won't necessarily change with new hardware, your hardware isn't anything unusual. I had big problems with an XP3000+/512M, XP3000+ x86_64 laptop, but a P-II/333/64M laptop breezed it with a non-graphical install as there wasn't enough video memory (only 2Meg), X came up just fine and it's quite responsive using Windowmaker. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====
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=====
Hi Sid,
* Sid Boyce
9.2 can be a dog to install, once installed, it's solid. You didn't say where exactly it hangs or if there are any messages. One of the VT's, may be VT4 should also display some messages - I'm guessing it hangs after saying Starting YaST. It certainly sounds like a hang, perhaps trying a non-graphical install as another angle is advised.
<--snip---snip--snip--snip--> Thanks (I think!), See my reply to Patrick, as I found why it was 'churning', still looking to see if there is a solution. And yeah, bulk std hardware. IDE drives, not SATA etc. Frustrating that I checked my 8.2 pro logs and do not see any sign of what 9.2 is reporting. Bother. -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org
Hi Sid,
* Sid Boyce
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.
Slightly out of sysnc with replies! My problem is the drive (hda) that has the error is my nicely operating 8.2 install. hdb (currently installed with Yoper2, previously Ubuntu) is the drive I want 9.2 on, just until I'm satisfied with setting it up etc. As I previously mentioned, I'm curious as to why 9.2 has a problem in this regard when nothing else has. Might (as a temp measure), remove current hda, set hdb up has hda, and see what happens. Have seen comments regarding problems with round IDE cables etc, unfortunately I removed them months ago. Thanks for your input. -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org
Hi Sid,
* Sid Boyce
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.
Seems my problem drive is also an ATA100 (Seagate ST320413A) spec'ed drive. Might double check the cable and jumper set up just for fun, as well as removing this drive and using hdb. Interesting....... -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org
Roland Hill wrote:
Hi Sid,
* Sid Boyce
[26-12-04 10:37]: 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.
Slightly out of sysnc with replies!
My problem is the drive (hda) that has the error is my nicely operating 8.2 install. hdb (currently installed with Yoper2, previously Ubuntu) is the drive I want 9.2 on, just until I'm satisfied with setting it up etc.
As I previously mentioned, I'm curious as to why 9.2 has a problem in this regard when nothing else has.
Might (as a temp measure), remove current hda, set hdb up has hda, and see what happens. Have seen comments regarding problems with round IDE cables etc, unfortunately I removed them months ago.
Thanks for your input.
Likewise, I've been curious, 9.2 can offer up some weird problems on install, only the Gods know why as SuSE obviously don't judging by their complete silence on the subject. They are the sort of things you can try, it may suddenly get going. Anything tried is better than nothing, but I doubt there is a single thing wrong with the hardware. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and Keen Flyer =====ALMOST ALL LINUX USED HERE, Solaris 10 SPARC is just for play=====
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Roland Hill
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