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I have been using SuSE 9.0 for quite a while now. I had no problems until I connected my third Hard drive(Seagate 200GB). In fact after connecting the hard drive it does not boot with SuSE. I had no problems with Mandrakes 9.2 though.
Having tried several things I have decided to re-install SuSE but it got stuck after hardware recognition. As I mentioned before it works fine with Mandrake 9.2 and WinXP.
Can anybody help with this.
I have the following hard drives on my computer.
Maxtor 50GB(3 partitions)
WDC 80GB(3 partitions)
Seagate 200GB(2 partitions)
I have connected the 200 GB Hard drive to Primary Ultra ATA 100 IDE slot. It is the only other primary I have. I do have a CD/RW, DVD Drive and also a DVD/RW drive.
Two hard drives(50GB and 80GB) have been connected using a single connector as primary and slave to primary IDE Connector. Secondary IDE Connector has been used to connect the CD drive and the DVD Drive. The DVD/RW drive has been connected to the Secondary Ultra ATA 100 IDE Connector.
I do have Mandrake 9.2 and WinXP.
That's about it. Let me know if you need more information.
Unfortunately, I found no match in my bookmakrs, for this problem. The case is: suse wasn't supposed to behave like that.
"Having tried several things I have decided to re-install SuSE but it got stuck after hardware recognition"
At which specific point, does it hang?
Did you try to enter BIOS and do a hd autodetection?
Did you try to run the 9.1 live CD in this machine? If 9.1 runs fine, consider a upgrade.
Did you pass any parameters to the kernel, while starting a install? Maybe disabling a few options will do.
Hi Novice!
When you boot the suse cd, do you see an option called failsafe? Did you try to use it? This option passes a lot of parameters to the kernel, trying to solve problems. You can see these parameters, when you select this option with the keyboard arrows.
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