On 12/30/2007 03:57 AM, Theo Wollenleben wrote: > Thank you for pointing my attention to the libata problem. Indeed when I > start > the Live CD with 'hwprobe=-modules.pata' no system freeze will occur. > Apparently this boot parameter has no effect on an already installed system. > Actually it does, but I suspect not what you were expecting. > So if anybody knows how to disable libata without to reinstall, please tell > me. I don't want to reinstall openSUSE 10.3 because the last time I went > through the installation procedure one of my partitions was cleared from all > data... > > You will need to change your drives device naming to correspond to the older method, i.e. hdx for ide, sdx for scsi (including cd and dvd drives) instead of sdx for drives and srx for optical (replace x with letter for drives and numbers for optical [no partitions]. This will need to be done in /etc/fstab, /boot/grub (at least menu.lst and device.map, as well as your modules used for your initrd in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and rebuild your initrd. Probably best to do all that after booting into the rescue system mode. HTH.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
