Install of 7.3 and Maxtor IDE cards
I am trying to install 7.3 on a 20 GB drive in a Dell Optiplex XM590. This system only recoginzes 8 GB of the drive with its build-in IDE controllers so I installed a Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 PCI IDE controller and turned off the internal controllers. The BIOS on the controller card recognizes the Hard drive and CD/Rom drive. However, the SuSE install program finds neither the CD/ROM or hard drive. Did not find anything in the SuSE Support DB. Any ideas for a solution are appreciated. Robert robertc@mindspring.com
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 15:32, robertc@mindspring.com wrote:
Did not find anything in the SuSE Support DB. Any ideas for a solution are appreciated.
The Maxtor-brand cards I've seen are basically Promise reference-design boards. Go back to the SDB and look for Promise Ultra100. ;) It may also be of interest to you to know that LILO can work around the 8GB limitation of your motherboard, by feeding it geometry= arguments on boot. You *could* put the big disk on hda/b/c/d, but that may be more work than you were after. Adding another modern ATA controller is a perfectly acceptable workaround if you don't need the extra PCI slots. As a side note, all disks on the addon card will start at /dev/hde and up, and your onboard controllers will still be activated by Linux, despite the fact that you turned them off in the BIOS. If I were you, I'd put your CD, a Zip, or whatever non-harddrive devices back on the onboard controller to keep the addon processor free to handle disks alone. -- -=|JP|=- Need a good geek? I'm unemployed! '01 B15 SE/PP | http://www.xanga.com/cowboydren/ | <//>< '95 SL2 Auto | cowboydren @ yahoo . com | _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
After a fresh install of SuSE 7.3 I decided to compile a new kernel for my machine. Unfortunately, after I rebooted the machine, I got a blank screen. Any idea what might be going on? Everything was working perfectly until that time. Now I feel like I'm back to square one. Frankly I'm getting VERY frustrated. I was pretty conservative in setting up the config file, or so I thought. Thanks, Skip
Hi Skip, The default SuSE kernel is setup to use a framebuffer device - hence the nice penguin at boot... The vga= line in lilo.conf is set to reflect this (vga=771 or something). This will result in a blank screen if no framebuffer support is available. Try changing the line to vga=normal or vga=ask. Or you could compile in framebuffer support... HTH. Nick On Wednesday 02 January 2002 22:10, Skip Haak wrote:
After a fresh install of SuSE 7.3 I decided to compile a new kernel for my machine. Unfortunately, after I rebooted the machine, I got a blank screen. Any idea what might be going on? Everything was working perfectly until that time. Now I feel like I'm back to square one. Frankly I'm getting VERY frustrated. I was pretty conservative in setting up the config file, or so I thought.
Thanks, Skip
On Thursday 03 January 2002 04:32 am, robertc@mindspring.com wrote:
I am trying to install 7.3 on a 20 GB drive in a Dell Optiplex XM590. This system only recoginzes 8 GB of the drive with its build-in IDE controllers so I installed a Maxtor Ultra ATA/100 PCI IDE controller and turned off the internal controllers. The BIOS on the controller card recognizes the Hard drive and CD/Rom drive. However, the SuSE install program finds neither the CD/ROM or hard drive.
If you can update the BIOS, you can break the 8GB limitation. go to Dell homepage and start hunting. ------------------------- SuSE Professional 7.3 KDE 2.2.2
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