On Tuesday 07 June 2005 13:46, THORNTON Simon wrote:

Hi Dave,

I had what sounds like the same issue and it was resolved by changing the emulation mode of the PERC raid controller. From memory, the PERC card has two possible I2O modes: "emulation mode" (the default), and "mass storage". Change the mode to "Mass storage" and then reboot. This mode will also work with Redmond products as well.

# Switch your computer on and press the keys < Control > + < M > (the PERC2/DC bios will will apear). # Select 'Objects' and then 'Adapter' from the menu. # Change the 'EMULATION MODE' from 'I20' to 'MASS STORAGE'. # Press < ESC > two times in order to save these changes.

The issue seemed to arise because the AMI megaraid module does not support emulation mode, when it loads it hangs trying to determine the location of the storage devices. Since making the change I haven't had any issues with installing any version of SuSE (8.2-9.3, enterprise, pro or home).

Rgds,

Simon