Hello Sasa, * Sasa Janiska (sjaniska@inet.hr) [990428 11:25]:

Hi!

After so many preaching to my friend, finally he allowed me to put Linux on one partition on his HD.

Nut, unfortunately, I have a problem trying to install SuSE 6.0.

After some time, I (hopefully) isolated the culprit. There is problem with Atapi CD-ROM. When I put boot disk in floppy drive, install routine normally starts, recognizes HD as hda and CD-ROM, as hdb, but after that machine hangs, blank screen. When I detached CD-ROM, everything is OK.

We tried all kinds of combinations (master & slave), but without any success.

I am aware of the problem from the description in the SuSE manual (2.8.5), tried also to put the explicit parameter, but nothing happened. When I try to run loadlin from HD, program selects EIDE2 kernel.

I actually disagree with this section of the manual when it suggests that having the CDROM as a master on the second controller is incorrect. In any case, many IDE drives are ... not very robust, to be polite. In some cases attempting to access them in certain specification-compliant ways to determine their speeds will cause them to behave poorly, and could concievably lock the IDE bus. Here are some ways you can avoid this: 1) Tell linux where to find your CDROM. On the initial boot: line try the statement boot: Linux hdb=cdrom 2) Ask linux to use a minimum feauture set of IDE. Many devices claim to support modes they really don't. In most cases Linux will detect the data-loss, but not always. On the initial boot: line try the statement boot: Linux ide0=noautotune 3) Check the jumpers on the IDE devices. Look for ones that say 'compatability' and such in the device manuals. Some IDE devices don't always get along correctly with each other without such tweaks. 4) Try replacing the IDE cables (perhaps a shorter one?). This is a bit wacky, but we have worked whith customers whose problems ended up being cabling.

Does anyone has any suggestion to solve the problem?

That's all the thoughts I have on this one.

Yes, I know, install from HD, but this is not the real solution for a long run.

Understood.

Sincerely, Sasa

Best of luck, -josh

-------------------------------------------- Sasa Janiska Zagreb, Croatia E-mail: sjaniska@inet.hr

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