Re: [Sheflug] openSuSE10.2 woes

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Morris, David (Allvac, UK) wrote:
>  
>  
>> The update looks to have happened OK, but it won't boot now. 
>> This machine has a pair of software raid (mirrored) drives, 
>> and I assume it's that that's causing the problem. I've 
>> scanned both partitions (/dev/sda2 and /dev/sdb2) and they're 
>> OK. (/dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb1 are swap).
>>
>> Any suggestions?
> 
> ...at least I've got it booted now... Dratted SATA... I've had to tell
> it to boot off 'HD 3' rather than 'HD 2' in the BIOS but it appears to
> have lost the RAID config now. I suspect (without looking - it's still
> synchronising with Zenworks) that it might be a grub config problem.
> 
> Whatever happened to plain old simple IDE?
> 

Indeed.

Can't advise on what's happened with the raid and am sure that i/o SATA
is sorted by now vis-a-vis Linux in a general sense.

I recently bought a secondhand ASUS A7N8X Deluxe mobo which has SATA on
it but I used IDE drives on that because I didn't want to go to the
expense of new disks as well.

However I found there was nothing to autodetect the lack of SATA so had
to ensure board jumpers were set to disable SATA to get a successful
install of 10.1.  Might therefore be worth checking the board is set
correctly for RAID and that all cables are present and correct.

The Zenworks thing is a known irritant.  It hogs CPU.  There is a new
package manager called smart which seems to work quite well with a
choice of a GUI or a CLI.  The YaST update still works but can be
problematic.

Good luck

L.




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