SUSE installation woes with a SATA disk
Hi all, Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began! I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution I've used on other machines since it was released. Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go. From much reading I believe I need the libata:ata-pix module loaded first but, when I try it, the installation won't proceed without module arguments for ata_pix. Despite much googling I can't find a description of these arguments anywhere. Can anyone oblige please? Colin
On Friday 14 January 2005 07:52 am, Colin Fraser wrote:
Hi all,
Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began! [...] Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go.
From much reading I believe I need the libata:ata-pix module loaded first but, when I try it, the installation won't proceed without module arguments for ata_pix.
Despite much googling I can't find a description of these arguments anywhere. Can anyone oblige please?
Colin ===========
Colin, Have you tried the Manual Installation? If memory serves me, you can load your needed modules using that selection from a list of modules you might need. You won't have to manually try to enter them yourself. regards, Lee -- --- KMail v1.7.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!"
Lee, I did try that and got into a right mess but I think it also requires the module parameters! Thanks also to Thadeau and Ingo. I've dithered a bit about it but I think I'll shell out for 9.2 and see how that goes next. Cheers, Colin BandiPat wrote:
Colin, Have you tried the Manual Installation? If memory serves me, you can load your needed modules using that selection from a list of modules you might need. You won't have to manually try to enter them yourself.
regards, Lee
Recently, I install SuSE 9.2 on my new Seagate Barracuda SATA HD, to do this I need to install in safe mode. I search the SuSE manual but no information I found about what parameter(s) is(are) needed to setting for a normal installation. Before to install SuSE, I trying to install Mandrake 10.1 (from Linux Magazine) and have no problem, but with SuSE only after install as a secure installation. But it is work very good unless for shutdow that I need to press computer power button. Thadeu On Friday 14 January 2005 10:52, Colin Fraser wrote:
Hi all,
Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began!
I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution I've used on other machines since it was released.
Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go.
From much reading I believe I need the libata:ata-pix module loaded first but, when I try it, the installation won't proceed without module arguments for ata_pix.
Despite much googling I can't find a description of these arguments anywhere. Can anyone oblige please?
Colin
I recently installed 9.2 onto a SATA disk no probs, no manual this or that, just out of the box. I've also got wireless keyboard and mouse and that was no sweat either - everything went automatic... Now I am in the process of assigning the special multimedia keys using KLineak - that one I've got to do manually :-( Ingo Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
Recently, I install SuSE 9.2 on my new Seagate Barracuda SATA HD, to do this I need to install in safe mode. I search the SuSE manual but no information I found about what parameter(s) is(are) needed to setting for a normal installation. Before to install SuSE, I trying to install Mandrake 10.1 (from Linux Magazine) and have no problem, but with SuSE only after install as a secure installation. But it is work very good unless for shutdow that I need to press computer power button.
Thadeu
On Friday 14 January 2005 10:52, Colin Fraser wrote:
Hi all,
Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began!
I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution I've used on other machines since it was released.
Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go.
From much reading I believe I need the libata:ata-pix module loaded first but, when I try it, the installation won't proceed without module arguments for ata_pix.
Despite much googling I can't find a description of these arguments anywhere. Can anyone oblige please?
Colin
Op vrijdag 14 januari 2005 13:52, schreef Colin Fraser:
Hi all,
Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began!
I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution I've used on other machines since it was released.
Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go.
Perhaps related to this http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3352 ???? -- RB
Richard Bos wrote:
Op vrijdag 14 januari 2005 13:52, schreef Colin Fraser:
Hi all,
Recently got a new 'multimedia' PC - 3.6 Ghz Pentium 4 (hyperthreaded), 512 Mb RAM, 230-ish Gb SATA disk, wireless USB keyboard and mouse, DVD-RW and DVD ROM, bluetooth, 2 x ethernet, Firewire, wireless, TV/radio, Nvidia Geforce. and thought this would be a great Linux box (if I could get it working) and that's where my troubles began!
I've used SUSE for some years and want to stay with that if I can. First I tried 9.1 Personal (magazine DVD) and no-way would it recognise the keyboard and mouse. After googling about I found the best option was to replace them with the corded variety and set up the wireless ones later. But I also read lots and lots of tales of many problems with 9.1 so decided to go back to 9.0 Professional, the official SUSE distribution I've used on other machines since it was released.
Now YAST won't recognise the disk at all so the install is a no go.
Perhaps related to this http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3352 ????
Richard, Thanks for the pointer - looks interesting although my problem is trying to get the installation to recognise the disk. I'll take a closer look once I've got my 9.2 set. Cheers, Colin
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