Re: No installation on new hardware

Vahis wrote:
I don't believe I'm telling you this, but since you're aömost there with
your old system disk, boot with install media with option to fix
installed system :)

The reason I did not do that was because I do not want to chnage
anything on those drives, because now I can still go and put them back
in the old system.

The next I tried is booting from disk. It boots anf loads the kernel.
After that the screen goes black. I have tried the differnt kernel
options and the same thing happens.

This is a different disk? Not the one above?

Sorry, this was the CD and DVD disks.

I then tried textmode and the first time it hung with some sata driver,
so I dsabled sata. Then it hung with USB and that is when I noticed the
time and called it a day.

I don't know your mobo, but mine (Asus P5Q) has a lot IDE/SATA options.
Some option made IDE DVD Writer disappear from the OS.

See mobo's manual for these BIOS things.

Nothing there that would cause it, although there are plenty of
settings.

I will try again tolorrow and give lore details about errors. Now I am
too tired to think of a solution.

OK. Today a new day. I will be trying solely with the 64bit DVD as I
will not have to worry about. I do a text install and use 'safe
settings'.

These are the results:
The first time I get a "kernel panick".
The second time I get to the Novell warning. This is great, because it
means I actually went through the initial boot process, so I treid
again.
The third time I get to "loading sata_nv" where it stops and does
nothing anymore.
Then I try without any kernel selection, I get to ide_pci_generic
The above are both nVidia sata controllers

Then I try no APCI and it gets even a bit further and gets to
"Activating usb devices"

Then I try "no local ACPI" and it does not load the sata_nv

I try again and get a Kernel Panick again.

So then I try to check the install media and it stops also al 'loading
sata_nv'. Each time I wait some 5 minutes. The the "rescue system". That
goes till the "Activating usb devices"

Then "firmware test" and that doesn' even get that far.

I then try again and it works. I get into YaST. WTF?

It does the folloing after accepting the licence.
Probe USB devices
Prove fireWire devices
Probe floppy disk devices
Probe hard disk controlers
It stops at 40% with "Load kernel modules for hard disk controllers"

I will take another break and get back later.
--
houghi http://www.houghi.org
My experience with SuSE Linux 9.1

The businessworld is like prison and M$ made everybody their bitch.
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