On 2007/12/29 20:57 (GMT+0100) Theo Wollenleben apparently typed:
Thank you for pointing my attention to the libata problem. Indeed when I start the Live CD with 'hwprobe=-modules.pata' no system freeze will occur. Apparently this boot parameter has no effect on an already installed system. So if anybody knows how to disable libata without to reinstall, please tell me. I don't want to reinstall openSUSE 10.3 because the last time I went through the installation procedure one of my partitions was cleared from all data...
What will probably work is reboot into BIOS setup and disable the secondary IDE controller. If it won't let you do that, pop the cover and remove the power cables from any devices on the secondary controller. Then boot normally and rebuild your initrd in a manner similar to the description at http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/cooker/2007-11/msg00387.php . Before rebooting with that initrd, check to see no devices in /etc/fstab are referred to as /dev/sdX, and fix any that are. -- Jesus Christ, the reason for the season. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org