Very frustrating. SuSE 9.3 is far too slow on my old machine (PentiumII-500) so I purchased an Athlon64 machine (Asus A8V-E motherboard, SATA hard drive, blue trim, pretty lights, ... ) Cannot install SuSE 9.3 from the DVD or CD media). General problem seems to be "locating info file" and a hang. Googling suggests problems with SATA and AMD64 combination. I tried disabling SATA mode, but get a non-helpful "Installation error". Novell's site is hopeless. SuSE only talks about SATA for 9.0. Any suggestions? Paul Alfille
On Saturday 18 June 2005 18:03, Paul Alfille wrote:
Googling suggests problems with SATA and AMD64 combination. I tried disabling SATA mode, but get a non-helpful "Installation error".
Hi, No problem here when installing 9.2 on similar spec. PC. Here's the rules I found for a successful install. - kernel 2.6 - no SATA-->IDE cables - no SATA on the IDE channels (via the BIOS) You also didn't mention whether you board has RAID. Make sure you have plugged your drive in the right place. All the best. -- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg South Africa
On Saturday 18 June 2005 18:03, Paul Alfille wrote:
Googling suggests problems with SATA and AMD64 combination. I tried disabling SATA mode, but get a non-helpful "Installation error".
Hi,
No problem here when installing 9.2 on similar spec. PC.
Here's the rules I found for a successful install.
- kernel 2.6 I hope that is implicit with 9.3 - no SATA-->IDE cables Seems to have a sata disk and a sata cable (ide for the DVD and CDROM) - no SATA on the IDE channels (via the BIOS) Hmm... interesting. I can say that WinXP will load, and SuSE in 32 bit mode (from the CDROM). I get an error on the DVD when I do a installation media check, so maybe
On Sunday 19 June 2005 09:38 pm, roach wrote: that's the problem. All in all, a much less smooth installation than previous (going back to SuSE 5.0) times.
You also didn't mention whether you board has RAID. Make sure you have plugged your drive in the right place.
No raid.
All the best.
-- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg South Africa
I think that the problem is related to the motherboard. O have a ASUS k8v SE. I could install the system but not boot at first. After a bios update it would boot without any problem. I found out that I need one more bios update to fix an intermitten USB problem. I suggest you make sure you get the most recent bios update. By the way this is also a microsoft windows problem for certain moher boards. roach wrote:
On Saturday 18 June 2005 18:03, Paul Alfille wrote:
Googling suggests problems with SATA and AMD64 combination. I tried disabling SATA mode, but get a non-helpful "Installation error".
Hi,
No problem here when installing 9.2 on similar spec. PC.
Here's the rules I found for a successful install.
- kernel 2.6 - no SATA-->IDE cables - no SATA on the IDE channels (via the BIOS)
You also didn't mention whether you board has RAID. Make sure you have plugged your drive in the right place.
All the best.
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 12:03:57 -0400 Paul Alfille <palfille@earthlink.net> wrote:
(Asus A8V-E motherboard, SATA hard drive, blue trim, pretty lights, ... )
Cannot install SuSE 9.3 from the DVD or CD media).
No problems here on a friend's computer with a similar twin SATA drive set-up using 9.3. Both drives were recognised, I compressed the M$ drive and installed without let or hindrance. Terence
On Saturday 18 June 2005 12:03 pm, Paul Alfille wrote:
Very frustrating. SuSE 9.3 is far too slow on my old machine (PentiumII-500) so I purchased an Athlon64 machine
(Asus A8V-E motherboard, SATA hard drive, blue trim, pretty lights, ... )
Cannot install SuSE 9.3 from the DVD or CD media).
General problem seems to be "locating info file" and a hang.
Googling suggests problems with SATA and AMD64 combination. I tried disabling SATA mode, but get a non-helpful "Installation error".
Novell's site is hopeless. SuSE only talks about SATA for 9.0.
Any suggestions?
Paul Alfille As I noted in another thread. The problem was with the BIOS -- an upgrade fixed the problem. ASUS did not get high marks for Linux support or quality control.
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