[opensuse] has someone experienced the same problem .... please readme
Please, respont to: maura.monville@gmail.com I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor and a SCSI Raid drive. Apparently SuSE is unhappy with the Raid drive and get stuck at the BIOS stage. It cannot make it to launch the interactive installation procedure. We have tried to install two other Linux distribution but experienced the same problem. The computer's owner, who was running Red Hat, told me this is a Linux problem, irregardless of the distribution. He advised to avoid installing in the Master Boot Sector. To my best recollection, I had this Master Boot Sector problem some year ago, maybe with Red Hat or SuSE 7.3 on a DELL desktop. I never had that problem again after replacing the computer. Someone helped me find the workaround. There is a way to tell the BIOS where to install the O.S. ... but I cannot remember. But is it really a Master Boot Sector problem ? I cannot understand the relation with the SCSI Raid drive ... I would greatly appreciate your help. Thank you in advance. Maura Maura Edelweiss M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 07 October 2007 11:53:22 MAURA MONVILLE wrote:
Please, respont to: maura.monville@gmail.com
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor and a SCSI Raid drive. Apparently SuSE is unhappy with the Raid drive and get stuck at the BIOS stage. It cannot make it to launch the interactive installation procedure.
What exactly does this mean? Where exactly does it hang?
We have tried to install two other Linux distribution but experienced the same problem. The computer's owner, who was running Red Hat, told me this is a Linux problem, irregardless of the distribution. He advised to avoid installing in the Master Boot Sector. To my best recollection, I had this Master Boot Sector problem some year ago, maybe with Red Hat or SuSE 7.3 on a DELL desktop. I never had that problem again after replacing the computer. Someone helped me find the workaround. There is a way to tell the BIOS where to install the O.S. ... but I cannot remember.
If you can't even launch the installation program, it's difficult to install anything anywhere. It sounds like there are other problems here Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote:
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor
Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem...
Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Oct 7 2007 12:43, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote:
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor
Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem...
Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :)
Cpt. Obvious to the rescue. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun October 7 2007 06:50, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Oct 7 2007 12:43, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote:
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor
Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem...
Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :)
Cpt. Obvious to the rescue.
"Obvious" is subjective. *Two* snide comments in one morning. Sheesh! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun October 7 2007, Carl Hartung scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
On Sun October 7 2007 06:50, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Oct 7 2007 12:43, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote:
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor
Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem...
Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :)
Cpt. Obvious to the rescue.
"Obvious" is subjective.
*Two* snide comments in one morning. Sheesh!
Gee whiz ! It's kinda early for this sort of sniping isn't it? Too long at the computer guys? Nanny says: "Too much work and not enough play makes all of you very cranky.. :-) I think you should all go outside and get some of that fresh cold air everyone makes such a fuss about.. " Or, if you are anywhere around Fla.. fresh warm, & every so slightly sticky air.. lots of "salt " in it today... mmmmmmmmm, yum !! Don't wear too much if you go running tho, you'll be uncomfortable. Go clear out the brain cells and then get back to WORK !!! :-) <VBG> -- j I've lived in the real world enough, we're all here because we ain't all there. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun October 7 2007 09:14, jfweber@gilweber.com wrote:
On Sun October 7 2007, Carl Hartung scratched these words onto a coconut
shell, hoping for an answer:
On Sun October 7 2007 06:50, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Oct 7 2007 12:43, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote:
> I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop > provided with a XEON processor
Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem...
Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :)
Cpt. Obvious to the rescue.
"Obvious" is subjective.
*Two* snide comments in one morning. Sheesh!
Gee whiz ! It's kinda early for this sort of sniping isn't it? Too long at the computer guys? Nanny says: "Too much work and not enough play makes all of you very cranky.. :-) I think you should all go outside and get some of that fresh cold air everyone makes such a fuss about.. "
Or, if you are anywhere around Fla.. fresh warm, & every so slightly sticky air.. lots of "salt " in it today... mmmmmmmmm, yum !! Don't wear too much if you go running tho, you'll be uncomfortable.
Go clear out the brain cells and then get back to WORK !!! :-)
<VBG>
Good advice! And the proof is in the pudding: The prior problem that my foggy brain had conjured up concerned Itanium / Itanium 2 processors, not XEONs. :-) Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 07 October 2007 15:32:16 Carl Hartung wrote:
Good advice! And the proof is in the pudding: The prior problem that my foggy brain had conjured up concerned Itanium / Itanium 2 processors, not XEONs. :-)
Yes, IA64 is only supported on SLES. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun October 7 2007 06:43, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote:
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor
Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem...
Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :)
It clearly isn't "obvious" to everybody, Anders. Maybe I've confused the processor line involved in the prior issue, but I do recall having run across that type of problem before. Carl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 07 October 2007 13:03:23 Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sun October 7 2007 06:43, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote:
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor
Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem...
Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :)
It clearly isn't "obvious" to everybody, Anders. Maybe I've confused the processor line involved in the prior issue, but I do recall having run across that type of problem before.
Yes it's obvious. If xeons in general didn't work, nobody would be interested in running suse (and, since processor support is a kernel thing, not suse specific, linux in general would also not be so very interesting) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun October 7 2007 07:09, Anders Johansson wrote:
Yes it's obvious. If xeons in general didn't work, nobody would be interested in running suse (and, since processor support is a kernel thing, not suse specific, linux in general would also not be so very interesting)
You've completely missed my point. Not everybody keeps a 'currently supported' list of processor family names churning around in their head. I happen to be one of those types of people. I didn't *assert* that XEONs weren't supported but merely pondered offhand and publicly if that could be the problem. It was a legitimate question. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 07:03 -0400, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sun October 7 2007 06:43, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Sunday 07 October 2007 12:33:17 Carl Hartung wrote:
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor
Is this processor even supported? I somehow recall this being a problem...
Um, yes. It's one of the most common processors in the world. Obviously it's supported :)
It clearly isn't "obvious" to everybody, Anders. Maybe I've confused the processor line involved in the prior issue, but I do recall having run across that type of problem before.
Carl
I had a problem installing 10.2 on my XEON system with a SCSI raid controller but the problem didn't show until the installer got to the point of probing the hardware. It couldn't find the harddrive because of a problem with qparted and the cciss controller. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
We will try again and come back to the list with more
details.
So far I can only state we tried to install two other
Linux distributions and experienced the same trouble.
Nevertheless the computer owner was running an old Red
Hat version with no problem ...
WHat if the Raid drive for some reason does not work
... It is there but it has hardly been used at all.
Can the installation procedure detect out-of-order
components and just skip them ?
Thanks to all,
Maura
--- Anders Johansson
On Sunday 07 October 2007 11:53:22 MAURA MONVILLE wrote:
Please, respont to: maura.monville@gmail.com
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor and a SCSI Raid drive. Apparently SuSE is unhappy with the Raid drive and get stuck at the BIOS stage. It cannot make it to launch the interactive installation procedure.
What exactly does this mean? Where exactly does it hang?
We have tried to install two other Linux distribution but experienced the same problem. The computer's owner, who was running Red Hat, told me this is a Linux problem, irregardless of the distribution. He advised to avoid installing in the Master Boot Sector. To my best recollection, I had this Master Boot Sector problem some year ago, maybe with Red Hat or SuSE 7.3 on a DELL desktop. I never had that problem again after replacing the computer. Someone helped me find the workaround. There is a way to tell the BIOS where to install the O.S. ... but I cannot remember.
If you can't even launch the installation program, it's difficult to install anything anywhere. It sounds like there are other problems here
Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Maura Edelweiss M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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