Dear All,

I have problem in booting Linux from the harddisk. In the course of booting, it just said "Waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/....-Part6 to appear" and then return to "/bin/sh". However, when I booted from the Installation CD, it's ok. !!

Here are some basis information,
- The Linux version installed is 10.3, from www"."opensuse"."org.
- I used an old PC to install Linux. It's Pentium 3.
- Before Linux, there's already a copy of Windows XP (one partition C and a data partition D:. My intent is to dual boot two O/S.
- Most of time I accept Linux recommendations during installation, except that I adjusted a little bit in the disk space allcations. Anyhow, I still have Linux native, /home, and swap in place.
- During installation, I did encountered a hang when it install ata_piix and piix. By trial and error, i added options "brokenmodules=ata_piix,piix" during installation and when it hit another error "no repository found", I entered "# insmod modules/ide-generic.ko" in linux console and proceed the installation.

I'm totally new to Linux. Not sure if the steps above is correct. Please let me know if there's anything I can post here in order to clarify the problem.

Many thanks to all of you.
Mike

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.

Closed the original because the dupe has a promising response.