Hi, On Wed, Jun 02, Petri Makijarvi wrote:

I noticed from the SuSE Linux mailing list that you plan to install SuSE Linux on a Dell PowerEdge 2300. I have here a Dell PowerEdge 2300 with SCSI hotswap rack for six disks. Of course, when I try to install SuSE 6.1 the boot/installation disk fails. It says "verifying partitioning" and then "install the root disk", then nothing.

I guess it can not see the SCSI ID#0 hard disk for some reason.

I do not think so. Does this machine have 1 GB of RAM or more? There was a bug in syslinux 1.43 (used on SuSE 6.1) which loaded the initial ramdisk to a wrong location when there is plenty of RAM. Easy workaround: Just specify "mem=768M" on the boot prompt and everything is fine. But don't forget to remove this parameter from the lilo.conf, because this workaround is only needed for installation (LILO is correct). I reported this bug to hpa, and only some hours later he released syslinux 1.44 which has the bug fixed (tested here on a 2 GB machine). BTW: This is the sort of bugfix I would like to see on a new release; most people wouldn't be affected at all, but it really helps people with big boxes.

Have you had an opportunity to install SuSE Linux on a Dell PowerEdge 2300 ? Could you please tell me about your experience with it, if you did ?

By the way, actually doing hot swapping is not interesting me, it just happens to be in my configuration.

Thanks,

Petri -o) Hubert Mantel Goodbye, dots... /\\ _\_v

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