Hi Sid,
* Sid Boyce
My trouble on the XP3000+ was an ATA100 HD it point blank failed to install on, it was my 9.1 drive and I'd tried upgrade and fresh install without reformatting, but it was happy with an ATA133 that I had rsync'd over from the ATA100 and done a fresh install without reformatting, on the XP3000+ laptop, I went around in circles, then for no reason, it worked, another ATA100, on the P-II/333 laptop with an ATA100, no problem. I wonder if you could boot from knoppix, timos rescuecd or may be in rescue mode on the SuSE CD/DVD and format the drive, then mkreiserfs, mkswap and have another go.
Seems my problem drive is also an ATA100 (Seagate ST320413A) spec'ed drive. Might double check the cable and jumper set up just for fun, as well as removing this drive and using hdb. Interesting....... -- Regards, Roland Hill Registered Linux User #330226 http://pl.net/~rnrhill/rhweb.htm @ http://counter.li.org