Hello one and all, I did a search of the known bugs and also the mailing list archives but couldn't find any mention of this so here goes.
I have a couple of middle aged laptops (300-500 MHZ class) that use drive overlays due to large hard drives and dual booting with Windows. When I installed Suse Pro 9.1, I had to use the command hda=remap during installation and in the grub config file. That works just fine. 9.2 had the same command but didn't support my touchpad properly and I never tried 9.3. When I attempted to install 10.0 using the store/for sale set of CD's, the installation CD took and properly interpreted the hda=remap. However, on reboot, the kernel-default package has ide-core as a module rather than being compiled in so the command just got thrown away (it's there, the kernel just ignores it). So I never get past the first reboot since the partitions aren't seen properly. So, I figure I have several options at this point. 1) find a kernel rpm that has ide-core compiled in rather than a module (are there more kernel packages on the DVD? I haven't looked at the DVD yet) 2) Boot to RECOVERY and hack the initrd and figure out how to specify "options hda=remap" when it insmods ide-core and hope I remember how I did it so that when a new kernel is released I can do it all over again. (does mkinitrd read modules.conf? If so, I might be able to put that command in there and see if it gets picked up by mkinitrd) 3) Build my own kernel 2.4.x RPM under 9.1 and call it kernel-ide or something like that so that it never gets replaced during the upgrade 4) Open a bug, stick with 9.1 for now and hope that 10.x fixes this Anyone got any ideas, especially where I can find #1? Does the multi-processor kernel have ide-core compiled in? I didn't try that one. Thanks Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
