We will try again and come back to the list with more
details.
So far I can only state we tried to install two other
Linux distributions and experienced the same trouble.
Nevertheless the computer owner was running an old Red
Hat version with no problem ...
WHat if the Raid drive for some reason does not work
... It is there but it has hardly been used at all.
Can the installation procedure detect out-of-order
components and just skip them ?
Thanks to all,
Maura
--- Anders Johansson
On Sunday 07 October 2007 11:53:22 MAURA MONVILLE wrote:
Please, respont to: maura.monville@gmail.com
I would like to install SuSE 10.2 on a desktop provided with a XEON processor and a SCSI Raid drive. Apparently SuSE is unhappy with the Raid drive and get stuck at the BIOS stage. It cannot make it to launch the interactive installation procedure.
What exactly does this mean? Where exactly does it hang?
We have tried to install two other Linux distribution but experienced the same problem. The computer's owner, who was running Red Hat, told me this is a Linux problem, irregardless of the distribution. He advised to avoid installing in the Master Boot Sector. To my best recollection, I had this Master Boot Sector problem some year ago, maybe with Red Hat or SuSE 7.3 on a DELL desktop. I never had that problem again after replacing the computer. Someone helped me find the workaround. There is a way to tell the BIOS where to install the O.S. ... but I cannot remember.
If you can't even launch the installation program, it's difficult to install anything anywhere. It sounds like there are other problems here
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