[Ma-linux] Suse Linux 11,3 Problems

[chuck.divine at comcast.net]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "greg pryzby" <greg at pryzby.org> 
To: "chuck divine" <chuck.divine at comcast.net> 
Cc: ma-linux at calypso.tux.org, dclug at calypso.tux.org 
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 5:17:30 PM 
Subject: Re: [Ma-linux] Suse Linux 11,3 Problems 

On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 5:12 PM, <chuck.divine at comcast.net> wrote: 
> All, 
> I recently tried installing Suse Linux 11.3 on my desktop. The desktop has 
> two hard drives. One, 27 GB in size, is the drive from an older computer 
> that I was using as my primary simply because it was easier to use that one 
> than incorporate the new one into the system. I installed Suse Linux 11.3 
> on the larger 180 MB hard drive because I decided it is time to start using 
> the larger drive because of all the photography I am doing. When you shoot 
> 1000 photographs of a performance and take up over 4 GB of space for just 
> one shoot, moving to the larger drive seemed sensible. 
> Here are some problems I am encountering. First, the new installation will 
> not boot normally. I can bring up 11.3 in failsafe mode. Things seem to 
> work for the most part in this mode. What isn't working is the network card 
> that allows me to reach the Internet and attempts to redefine the monitor so 
> that the window is the same size as the monitor. Currently it spills over a 
> bit onto the left and right sides. 
> Any advice? Offers of help? 

> I *almost always* look for a Live CD/DVD and try that before loading 
> onto disk. It will typically help me figure out if things will work. 


I usually do that as well. I ran into too many problems that way, so, in frustration, I tried a new install on the larger disk -- after a backup of important files, of course. 

> dmesg | grep -i error (after fail safe) 
> any clues? 


Here's the output: 







chuckdivine at linux-488b:~> dmesg | grep -i error 

[ 0.423091] pcie_pme: probe of 0000:00:02.0:pcie01 failed with error -13 

[ 0.423111] pcie_pme: probe of 0000:00:04.0:pcie01 failed with error -13 

[ 27.486425] nForce2_smbus 0000:00:0a.1: Error probing SMB1. 

[ 44.177395] type=1503 audit(1293558902.477:12): operation="change_hat" info="unconfined" error=-1 pid=1545 

[ 44.177414] type=1503 audit(1293558902.477:13): operation="change_hat" info="unconfined" error=-1 pid=1545 

chuckdivine at linux-488b:~> ^C 


> Let's get it booting cleanly THEN figure out the monitor. 


Agreed. 

> I would try unplugging the 2nd drive (if possible) and seeing if that 
> matters. in the old days, you had to tell the drives (jumpers!) which 
> was primary and secondary. I doubt that is the issues. Maybe you can 
> look in the bios for disk order of boot though. It is also possible 
> things are spread across both disks in a funky manor and the kernel 
> (man mkintird) doesn't have the drivers it needs. 







chuckdivine at linux-488b:~> man mkinti No manual entry for mkintird 

chuckdivine at linux-488b:~> ^C 

chuckdivine at linux-488b:~> 



The computer is a Compaq Presario SR2030NX. When I check out the boot devices, I get the following information: 
HDD Group 
1st Master Maxtor 6E030L0 
3rd Master SAMSUNG SP2004C 
CD-ROM Group 
2nd Master TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H652L 


I did use YAST to get hardware info. That file is over 500K. though. 


The most important thing to get working is, of course, the basic system. Then I need to get networking up and running. 


I do run Ubuntu on this laptop. It is currently version 11.04. I ran into problems with an old Ubuntu disk I originally used a few years ago. I actually found the Ubuntu disk at a Best Buy when I was wandering through there shopping for some CDs. 


Thanks for your help! 


Best, 


Chuck Divine 
> Yes, I have backed up important things from the 27 GB drive onto a DVD. 
> Best, 
> Chuck Divine 
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