Alex, I cannot comment on your specific situation. But can tell you that SLES 9 64-bit installs just fine on our dual Opteron servers. Better yet it comes as 5 CD's. One good think that Novell did was drop the price of SLES 9 for x86 and AMD64 from $800 to $349. I "believe" its certified for that AMD controller also (for irony we use the Intel RAID controllers on our Opteron servers). Its an option in case you cannot get 9.2 Pro to work. - Richard Alex Daniloff wrote:
Hello SuSE folkz, We have a big problem - unable to install SuSE 9.2 on our new dual AMD-64bit Opteron machine with Adaptec 2120S RAID-5 controller. I tend to suspect that it's because 64-bit version of SuSE 9.2 has been provided on a single side dual layer DVD alongside with 32-bit version. Test install of the previous distro of SuSE 9.1 64-bit version went just fine (it had two side DVD with 32-bit on one and 64-bit on another side).
Here are the problems:
1. In normal and save installation modes SuSE 9.2 installer hangs indefinitely on 'searching for info file'. End of story.
2. In manual installation mode SuSE 9.2 installer loads proper drivers (e.g aacraid for Adaptec 2120S RAID) but it exits its graphical mode with a report 'No hard drives found'.
Test install of 32-bit version of SuSE 9.2 from the CDs went just fine but what is the advantage of using 32-bit OS on 64-bit platform!?
Could somebody please give me a practical advise how to overcome this issue. SuSE staff, please make your comments on this problem.
Regards,
Alex