Am Sonntag, 30. Dezember 2007 schrieb Joe Morris (NTM): > 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.
I used the YaST sysconfig editor to replaced 'pata_via' by 'ide_disk' in INITRD_MODULES and changed my drives device naming in /boot/menu.lst, /boot/device.map and /etc/fstab (sda -> hda, sdb -> hdd in my case). It seems to work fine. Now ide drives are named /dev/hd* and there are no system freezes any more while reading the secondary IDE channel. Instead of booting into the rescue system mode I did this within the normal booted system. There also was no need to disable the secondary IDE controller as Felix suggested. Thank you all for the help. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
