Rikard Johnels wrote:
On Friday 12 January 2007 23:07, Sandy Drobic wrote:
Rikard Johnels wrote:
But the installer doesn't recognize them at all.
It sees /dev/rd/c0d0 as a full partition, and states it cannot do
anything with it.
How do i get the table read?
How do i initialize the array for usage in the installer?
I am eagerly waiting for the answer as well because I suspect that I
currently have the same problem with an old FSC Primergy 470 with Mylex
DAC960PRL Controller.
Can you delete the partitions and create them in yast again? If not, I
can't update to Suse 10.2 either.
This is how i got around the problem so far;
1. I did a clean install of 10.0 from CD's
This worked perfectly. Both removing the old w2k server partition, and
creating new ones for Linux
This is what I ended up doing as well. In my case I had an existing Suse
9.2 installation which I was iching to upgrade because it is no longer
supplied with security updates. But the update went without a hitch. So
now I can finally enjoy a supported version again.
Neither 10.1 nor 10.2 are able to read the partition table of the
installed System on the Mylex DAC960 raid. As this is still a frequently
used controller in older machines I am a bit aggravated that a fresh
install is not possible.
2. Added a online repository for 10.2 in Yast, and ran a full upgrade
3. I also tried adding a DVD "mounted" and shared from a XP desktop,
This also works.
I just finished recompiling the all the packages for my mailserver, so
I'll just call it a day and maybe wait for version 10.3 to appear.
So from what i can understand, the partition tool "parted" that is used in
10.2 does NOT work on the RAID partition created from the Mylex BIOS.
Yes, that is my experience as well. I had additional trouble even getting
the installation to start. Since an Ubuntu CD resulted in similar trouble
I am inclined to believe that it's the kernel itself that has changed and
not just the Suse version of the installation kernel.
This is very cumbersome, not to mention irritating, as i refurbish several
older server systems, and give them a Non-microsoft environment.
Any particular reason as to why SuSE/Novell changed partition manager from
10.0 to 10.2??
No idea, though I think they actually changed to parted in 10.1.
Sandy
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