* einar
Hello,
I am building a brand new box (K8T master with a VIA SATA controller and one Opteron) and since I saw that SuSE provides a patch CD with the SATA drivers I bought two SATA drives (Samsung). I downloaded the iso image of the patch CD and burned it. Now, I can boot with the 9.0 patch CD and I can pick my menu point from the bootloader (installation). Yast starts nicely and I can pick my language. However, on the next step, Yast searches eternally for the harddisk controllers! The hourglas is milling around but nothing happens.
If I pick a different menu point (driver modules instead of installation) and check which drivers are loaded then there are some sata drivers. Still, the installer hangs. Be aware that I have no IDE disk in this box! Yes, I could buy one and probably compile a kernel with the right modules but this is somehow a lot of work and it does not feel like a clean solution. Besides, I would
Probably, you won't find any other modules...
have to stand the jokes of my wife, who is an NT administrator :-)
She doesn't have any 64bit (operating-) system at all.... ;-)
Well, I think I need a bit of help...
It would be nice to have some more information: the messages on console 3+4, and the output of dmesg.
regards,
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