I have an ABIT IC7-MAX3 motherboard with two SATA Maxtor hard drives, one I just installed, partitioned and formatted.

I am trying to install SUSE Linux on the new hard drive, but after I choose "Install" from the first menu and locks up. I then have to re-boot the computer.

The new hard drive has the NTFS file system on it. Is this a problem?
Is there a problem regarding the motherboard?

Thank you,

David

It is only a little chance, but you may try to install with the option 'APIC' (Just select 'Install', then type 'APIC' on the bottom line, before you press enter). I could solve a lock-up with SuSE9.0 and a S-ATA drive that way...

NTFS on that drive should not be a problem, althought it might be easier to start with a blank HDD.

Good luck!

Thanks. I tried that. Did you mean ACPI? I tried both APIC and ACPI and other ways, but still locks up.

I pressed F2 to see the list of hardware it is finding and I notice the line always stops at this:

hde: attached ide-disk driver

I don't know if this happens because I have two Serial ATA hard drives.
I have a DVD-RW and CD-RW attached to IDE1 and a Zip 750 attached to IDE2.

No, that was no typo! I mean APIC (has something to do with irq assignment).

My system locked-up at the same message and booting with apic solved the problem! Strange that it does not work for you. You may try noapic and/or noacpi also.

Maybe you could have a try with just one HDD attached?

I could maybe go into CMOS and change one of the hard drives to Manual. I had to change my IDE drives to MANUAL from AUTO to get Windows to see my new drive. Then, I went back and changed them back to AUTO.

Strange and I was surprised it worked, but I won't complain.

I will try the apic again and no apic. If those don't work I'll try doing something in CMOS.

Thanks

Well, I tried installation again by typing apic at the bottom and it worked. It took a long time and I guess the last time I thought it had locked up because I didn't see any drive activity for a while.

I installed it on my new drive, so I have one hard drive with Windows XP and the other with SUSE Linux. I went through configuration and it appeared to me everything was OK.

When I boot up the computer, I am given a choice of what to boot to. When I choose Linux it appears to be loading OK. I pressed F2 to look to see what was happening. After it goes through that the screen goes black except for the hourglass. After a few seconds, the hourglass stops and the computer locks up.

I am really stumped now. The only thing I changed upon installation was that it was going to install Linux on my hard drive with Windows XP and I changed it to install on the new empty hard drive. I had partitioned and formatted it with Windows XP, but Linux re-partitioned it. I don't know if the problem still lies with hardware.

I hope I understood your question correctly... Try doing the same thing you did to install the thing like passing apic or noapic to the kernel at the bootloader.

OK, finally got it working with some problems. The Linux OS found my HP scanner, but when I ran a test, nothing happens.

Also, can't get my SBC/Yahoo! working.

OS finds Ethernet connector on ABIT IC7-MAX3 motherboard, but not my 2-Wire DSL Router. (I have another computer networked to mine, but I don't plan on using the networked computer with Linux, only Windows XP.

I am sure there is some kind of fix for the DSL connection.

I have the same problem and there is no solution as explained in the following link, unless I get the SATA drivers/modules somehow.

http://www.antennspecialisten.com/li.../msg01893.html

SUSE V9.0 does not support serial ATA hardrives in their automated installation, nor is there any plan to include this feature..

contracted support (extra $$$) is available from SUSE to achieve the use of SATA harddrives.

Manual installation is possible after loading the specific SATA modules ( drivers, packages).

Suse V9.0 does not have the provisions to monitor every step (single step) on the installation.

Stan, WA1ECF Cape Cod, FN41sr

Actually, this is not true! It may be true concerning certain S-ATA controller, but ICH5-SATA runs fine with SuSE9.0, even in the automatic installation procedure.

It is true, that SuSE charges money for solving problems that may occur with a SATA-controller, but this is technical support and not support of SATA by the kernel.