Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 2007/09/20 00:44 (GMT-0600) [EMAIL PROTECTED] apparently typed:
>
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=218122
>
>> --- Comment #25 from Andreas Jaeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  2007-09-20 00:44:01 
>> MST ---
>> See the release notes
>
> They don't say what one should find in /dev as a result of running
> activate_dm_linear or what if anything people running >15 on SATA can do or
> expect.

Ignore activate_dm_linear, it's really not working.

Btw. you even get a popup which advises to use "hwprobe=-modules.pata".

> Tentative release notes for 10.3 seem to be nicely hidden, not yet on
> http://en.opensuse.org/Release_Notes. It would be nice to see
> http://www.suse.com/relnotes/i386/openSUSE/10.2/RELEASE-NOTES.en on
> http://en.opensuse.org/Factory and/or 
> http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version



>> (and bug # 305095)-
>
> I've been following that and every other related bug (keyword >15). Most of
> what's in them seems pretty cryptic. I would expect running
> activate_dm_linear /dev/sda at the start of an RC1 install should produce
> some evidence that anything happened in /dev, but I don't see it.

As I've said: It misses some files in the inst.sys and therefore just
does not work in RC1.

>> and use "hwprobe=-modules.pata" to
>> not use libata at all.
>
> I don't see how that could be of any help on SATA systems with >15
> partitions. I already use it on PATA.

A SATA system with > 15 partitions was never ever supported!  If you
want that, then use LVM.  the activate_dm_linear solution would only
help with updating existing PATA systems.

>> The workaround from Hannes needs some more work we will do for RC2 - but even
>> then it will not be nicely integrated and only something for a real hacker. 
>
> From what I can tell in the relevant bugs, activate_dm_linear seems simple
> enough for an unreal hacker to manage. I've been ready for quite some time if
> only I could find functional guidance on what to do or evidence that anything
> resulted from what I did.
>
>> This needs more work for 11.0.
>
> Obviously. :-p I feel like the progress so far is behind a locked door to
> which the public key is hidden by secret code, or doesn't exist.
>
>> The general advise really is to use hwprobe=-modules.pata - this works just
>> fine.
>
> On SATA?



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