OpenSuse 10.3 Installation Help

steve_ervin21 · 11-04-2007, 02:36 PM

THANK YOU!! I'm installing right now with that boot option.. going good so far hopefully it will boot. I'll post my results.

nilix · 12-02-2007, 03:45 AM

Now what steve_ervin21, did that boot param work for you?

steve.ervin21 · 12-03-2007, 01:00 PM

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Originally Posted by nilix

Now what steve_ervin21, did that boot param work for you?

yes, it did thank you very much

mikebudohiee · 12-03-2007, 03:16 PM

i had to download "gparted". Boot with it and repartition my drive. I wiped out the disk and created a small 1GB partition. (note I only had 192mb of ram) Then when I installed SuSE 10.3 I told YaST to use the 1gb as a swap space for the install. In YaST I repartitioned the rest of the drive normally...swap, var, home, /, etc. It seemed to install fine after that. Also...ACPI OFF. I hope this helps.

!OpenZone · 07-05-2008, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by steve_ervin21

waiting for device /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS541680J9AT00_SB0244SGKJE75E-part2 to apear.....could not find /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS541680J9AT00_SB0244SGKJE75E-part2
want me to fall back to /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS541680J9AT00_SB0244SGKJE75E-part2 (y/n)

both yes and no do not work.. i have tried booting wiht the boot options insmod=ide-generic

please help me!
thanks

I have the same problem when I install openSUSE10.3 on an old machine. Even when I boot machine from DVD, I have to use 'brokenmodules=pata_via,via82cxxx'. Or else the machine goes done. I have to load ide-generic module manually before running yast and then installed the system. And then I have the same problem. My old machine is PIII 733(Coppermine) with VIA chipset, 128M RAM, WD 20G disk.