Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Last week I (not only me) reported a fatal error during M6
> installation concerning diskdruid/fdisk.
>
> Answer from bero and Tom indicated that the error was due to a
> faulty chipset.
>
> As I owned a motherboard with a chipset dated 1997 I thought,
> well, times go by and I've to upgrade some.
> Bought a new motherboard. TYAN Trinity 100AT with a VIA MVP3
> AGPset.
>
> So I thought, now I have a "modern" chipset, M6 will install.
>
> No way! It still hands me the same errors. Starting diskdruid I
> hear a clacking sound and I get the message:
>
> "Error when reading partition table of blockdevice hda. The
> following error has ocurred: Invalid or incomplete multibyte or
> wide character."
>
> Same happens with /dev/hdb when I press `skip drive'
>
> Changing the BIOS setup like disabling UDMA for both harddisks,
> disabling prefetch even setting PIO-mode from auto to the slow 2
> never changed the behaviour of fdisk. After the error message I
> have to do a complete power off to regain access to my harddisks.
> A warmboot or even a hardware-reset leaves me without harddisks.
> Although after starting up there is no error message when booting
> up M5.3. or SuSE 5.3
>
> Altogether I realized that the whole thing is related to some
> optimization code in the install-scripts.
> But regard this: Every (optimizable) software I encountered
> during my 12 yrs of computer-life installed with default (secure
> but slow) settings. After installation you had the opportunity to
> soup it up to the linits of your hardware (and more often than
> not beyond that limit).
>
> I never ever saw a program, let alone an OS, where the
> installation routine was only running on certain machines and
> *after* installation you were able to downgrade and make it
> usable for all the others.
>
> What will next version be? Only installable on PentiumIII? Once
> installed you may tweak some scripts and you are able to use it
> with a lower CPU?
>
> Pls forgive me for getting (maybe) to harsh on that topic. I just
> spent a couple of Euro on up-to-date hardware without getting
> where I wanted to go today!
>
> Wolfgang
> (and pls don't give me that crap about a "shaggy chipset" any
> more)
> --
Hi Wolf!
Have you tried installing M6 with the RH6 boot image? Should work.
HTH
tom
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