Hi,
OK, it seems that OpenSuSE 10.3 still is "a little bit" beta so I try it
here also.
I'm trying to install OpenSuSE 10.3 on an old iP IV-HT with Intel 865G,
SATA-HDD and PATA-DVD.
I'm doing a new installation (no upgrade from 10.2 which was installed
before), selected "minimal graphical system", "XFCE-desktop",
"Host-Server for XEN", "Kernel-development" and some others, selected
for "/boot", "/", "/usr", "/var" and "swap" the partitions I created
with 10.2 and for "/home" the LVM-volume "/dev/vg01/home" I also made
with 10.2!
The installation is running through and mostly everything works fine IF
I start with the default kernel.
The only thing is, that I get only 55Hz refresh rate with X11, I tried
several monitor-settings (Eizo FlexScan F563, VESA [EMAIL PROTECTED], VESA
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and VESA [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I don't get more than 55Hz -
for me it's not a big problem because I need X11 only for the first
configuration, later I'll use ssh for everything else.
I also recognized that the naming for the partitions in /etc/fstab
changed from 10.2 to 10.3:
/dev/sda1 /boot
ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6Y160M0_Y44AGXFE-part1 /boot
ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
What is the reason for this? Are there any advantages or only the
disadvantage that I can't just replace the harddrive after copying over
all files?
The BIG problem I have that the system does not boot with the
XEN-kernel. During boot it tells me that one partition needs a manual
fsck.ext3 and stops, checking the partition does not help but the
default-kernel still boots without any problems :-(
I was able to solve the problem by moving "/home" from the LVM-volume
"/dev/vg01/home" to the root-partition "/dev/sda7", but this is not a
real solution.
After doing so the system now starts, but I have several errors during
the boot of the system:
----------------- boot.msg -----------------
Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.6.22.5-31-xen
Loaded 24632 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.6.22.5-31-xen.
Symbols match kernel version 2.6.22.
No module symbols loaded - kernel modules not enabled.
...
Starting irqbalance startproc: signal catched /usr/sbin/irqbalance:
Segmentation fault
failed
...
Starting Name Service Cache Daemonstartproc: signal catched
/usr/sbin/nscd: Segmentation fault
failed
...
Starting RPC portmap daemonstartproc: signal catched /sbin/portmap:
Segmentation fault
failed
...
Starting smartd startproc: signal catched /usr/sbin/smartd:
Segmentation fault
failed
...
Failed services in runlevel 3: irq_balancer nscd portmap smartd
Skipped services in runlevel 3: smbfs splash xendomains
<notice>killproc: kill(2134,3)
----------------- boot.msg -----------------
Anyway the system works more or less, I can start XFCE4 with 55Hz :-(
and also the "Virtualization" within YaST.
Next step would be the creation of a new VM using LVM-volumes for the
PV-system and it's data, but if I want to add a new virtual harddisk I
can't find "( ) use block-device" ("Block-Gerät verwenden") I had in my
10.2 installation :-(
With OpenSuSE 10.2 all the above worked fine, but because the 10.3 comes
with Xen 3.10 I really would prefer that if it would work!
Thanks a lot for any ideas,
--
Chau y hasta luego,
Thorolf
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