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| Thread ID: 50465 | 2004-10-21 07:00:00 | SuSE 9.1 installation | willie_M (5608) | Press F1 |
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| 283295 | 2004-10-22 10:59:00 | isnt there a bios limit to how many logical drives you can have, you seem to have exceeded that I think you need to create an extend partion. If I'm reading your image correctly you seem to have 5 logical drives you may need to to make the root partion which you maked as suse a extended partion, as the swap partion is is the 4th logical drive. |
beama (111) | ||
| 283296 | 2004-10-22 11:36:00 | i was never aware of this logical drive limit... but your amount of posts beats mine :D lol... Ummm... so should have them all as primary partitions not extended/logical? |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 283297 | 2004-10-22 20:51:00 | willie to me post count dont mean that much, I maybe wrong in what I said. My suggestion is to research any advice given in any forum before acting on it. the way I heard it, 4 logical then you need to create an extended partion this is a bois restriction as opposed to software therefore it effects all os's. But as I said research before acting on advice. LONG LIVE GOOGLE oh another good one in my opinion is http://www.dogpile.com |
beama (111) | ||
| 283298 | 2004-10-23 02:25:00 | The fact that you have a partition 7 is no problem. That is a logical partition inside the extended partition. The extended partition will be partition 4 and there will be logicals 5,6,7 inside that. Partition 1 will be a primary which might contain Windows, The problem is that the disk is mounted as hde. The /etc/fstab knows it's hda. :_| hda is the first (primary, master) IDE interface. hdb would be (secondary, master), hdc (primary, slave), hdd (secondary, slave). hde would be the first drive on a third IDE interface... perhaps a RAID (which you haven't got). I don't know how Suse installs. But if you can't fix the 9.0, upgrading to 9.1 can't help but fail. It's trying to use the corrupted configuration. Have you tried the repair mode boot on 9.0? If you want to recover data, Knoppix (you can get a CD with this from DSE) will do that. |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 283299 | 2004-10-23 02:29:00 | Willie, FYI, www.linuxquestions.org Have a new susse forum (Came in todays/yestedays news promo) if its anything like their red hat forum should be useful. D. |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 283300 | 2004-10-23 09:18:00 | well i got my data back by booting my mandrake install from school in vmware... I got a prob with that too.. xserver won't start, might be alright when I run it on the AUT comp's. So I formatted the previous linux drive so now my partitions look somewat like this: sal.neoburn.net So even with this fresh new install it starts at hde, thru hdf and hdg!!! Which baffles me! WTF!? I dont have 6 drives! I have 3 and CD drive! So weird. Anyway it seems to work... but I can't install my modem drivers... I seem to have forgotten... I'll have a look thru my previous posts to see if anyone told me how tho, before asking again.... Cheers Willie_M |
willie_M (5608) | ||
| 283301 | 2005-05-01 08:42:00 | Hello - I realise I may be way after the fact here, but I came across the problem of 'hda' being set as 'hde' when trying to upgrade from SuSE 8.1 to 9.1 on new computer. Old computer did not change designation. I looked in my BIOS settings and found SATA Enabled in the section I believe was labelled 'Integrated Devices'. Since I do not have any Serial ATA devices, I disabled it and now 'hda' appears as 'hda'. Regards, - 7MG |
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