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The Sunday 2007-09-09 at 18:52 -0300, Juan Erbes wrote:
> > I downloaded the dvd, which took two whole days. I boot the dvd. It asks
> > for my language (US), but not for the keyboard (ES), which is a nuisance.
> > It searches the partitions, sees there are disks with more than 16
> > partitions, and pops a large warning, recommending to reboot the install
> > with kernel option "hwprobe=-modules.pata".
> >
>
> Do'nt be misery, buy a new hard disk!
What for?
Actually, it is a new disk, less than a year old. But PATA, of course.
Notice that new disks are bigger than old disks, and will possibly have
more partitions. Some people have reported using more than 40 partitions,
and I understand they are using SATA in emulated PATA mode precisely
because they use lots of partitions.
> > When I reach the point of installation (when it tries the network in order
> > to add online repos), it pops a window requesting "insert opensuse 10.3
> > CD1", "continue/cancel".
> >
> > I'm using DVD! Why does it ask for the CD1?
> >
> > Anyway, continue doesn't work (it asks again for CD1), and cancel aborts
> > the install. What now?
>
> You tryied to load in the command line from the first install screen
> with "insmod=ide-generic"?
Why should I? :-?
The message box tells me to use "hwprobe=-modules.pata", nothing more.
I can access the cdrom if I mount it manually and search its contents. It
is Yast who says it can't. There is no need to insmod anything.
> What chipset has Your mobo?
I don't remember. The mobo is MSI circa 2001. That's not related, I'm not
the only one having the exact same problem, according to bugzilla. Check
#218122 and #305095, for instance.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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