Also of note, is a DVD burnt from the same machine you read it from is 99.9999999% reliable, but reading a DVD that was burnt from another machine, depending on the media there can be wonkyness, i have found a high end DVD blank media burnt with a high end DVD burner will fail on about 3-4 percent of the readers on various desktops, granted they might be really cheap readers. I have switched to a DVD blank called Taiyo Yuden and that works every time (but its 2x the cost of other so called good brands). This is unlikely in your case , as DVD reader inaccuracies usually show up with random failure locations. But maybe your LIVE DVD burn was suspect in the first place. -tl On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 22:50 -0800, Redefined Horizons wrote:
Thanks Ted.
The computer is actually a couple of years old, so I don't think I have any really new hardware. (I did but in a new hard drive and DVD drive this last few months though.)
All I really want to do is install OpenSuSE on an empty ext3 partition on the hard drive. I'm already running Debian on the computer, and I want to try dual-booting with an RPM based distro.
Perhaps the LiveDVD isn't the best way to get OpenSuSE installed. I don't have a connection to the internet on that computer. Should I try to install from CD, or will I run into the same problems?
Thanks,
Scott Huey
On 11/23/06, ted leslie
wrote: my guess is you have a new chip set (for IDE/SATA, etc) or a very rare one.
I know lately in about aug./2006 a new nvidia chip set came out, and i think you have to be REALLY recent in the kernel to get it to work. A chip set could very well work with PATA, but not a sata drive. Right now the server works HT1000 chip set (like on tyan mobo), doesn't work for me in sata, there is kernel source for a driver from the company (bcraid), but its not in the linus (or Suse) kernel as of yet.
What live version are you using? I remastered the most recent live version of openSuse available then stuck the 2.6.18-2 in it, it helped me for device support, but broke app-armour (which isn't to big a deal for me right now).
IF you are using a mobo that is a new model in last couple/few months and its Sata, what you are experiencing isn't all that surprising.
also don't forget to try safe boot (nodma, etc), also some times mobo options can help to.
A live DVD for 10.2 would probably solve your issues, but that is probably a little ways away.
A usb DVD rom (or rom/writer) could also solve it perhaps. If you don;t want to access your harddrive, try the boot DVD, and disable your SATA interface (if mobo allows).
-tl
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 19:02 -0800, Redefined Horizons wrote:
I want to try OpenSuSE, but I'm struggling with the Live DVD I downloaded and burned. First I couldn't load the DVD because I didn't have the required 512 MB of RAM. I got around that by using the shift key trick.
However, when I get the "can't find kernel image" message when I try to run the DVD from the text mode by entering "linux" or "failsafe". I read something about OpenSuSE not supporting certain types of disk drives, or something like that.
Is there a work-around simple enough for a noobie, or do I need to look at another RPM based distro?
Thanks for the help. I hope I'm not overlooking something obvious. I'd really like to get OpenSuSE working.
Scott Huey
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