Hi. I did get some further with my case, but still no proper success. I tried to install grub to mbr of one of the old disks on raid controller and told him to boot installation on my new sata disk. This is similar to using a diskete to boot os. I used commands.
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find /boot/grub/stage1
to find grub menu.
because hd0,1 is where my grub menu was.
to install grub loader to the mbr of the second disk. However no success even this way. Further I thought that there may be some conflicts on the mobo, and there really were, raid controler and pci sound card did not like each other very much and after manual assigning IRQ 10 to raid controler...waw then new installation (sdc1) on sata disk became bootable. Here is my current fdisk -l output.
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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4001 32138001 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4002 9651 45383625 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 9652 9964 2514172+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0868ad31
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2 14946 120045712+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2 7474 60026841 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 7475 14946 60018808+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0006df67
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 2 4700 37744717+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc2 4701 18015 106952737+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 18016 18928 7333672+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc4 18929 91201 580532872+ 83 Linux
Now in kde I tried to manually mount partitions of other two disks (sdb and sda) in konsole and they mounted successfully and I could see data on them. However this is not how the story ends... of course I wanted that paritions of old disks mount automatically on booting, so I tried to add entries in /etc/fstab, I tried using both default ID and UUID of devices and tried to
afterwards to see if it was ok. But after I rebooted pc the suse began to load but it got stuck somewhere in the middle of the process, leaving me with the black screen and the mouse pointer. That is exactly what happend during my very first installation attempt, bucause at that time I selected to mount my old disks (sdb and sda) and after installation went through suse could not mount them. So I booted to singel user mode and commented out the new entry via vi and voila the system could boot again completely. Here are some of my /etc/fatab attempted entries
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/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD752LJ_S12UJDWS303466-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
#/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD752LJ_S12UJDWS303466-part1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
UUID=b54a2ee1-8589-4f8b-87e4-f0297f41cd57 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD752LJ_S12UJDWS303466-part2 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
#192.168.1.10:/home/Kanin_backup /media/Kanin_backup nfs defaults 0 0
#192.168.1.10:/mnt/sdb5/Downloads /media/Rombon nfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y120L0_Y33HFSEE-part6 /usr ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
#/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_Maxtor_6Y120L0_Y33HFSEE-part6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
#UUID=20332fdd-148b-4b16-af10-9a0899d6f593 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
Things are getting a more clear now. So the initial problem was the conflict on my mobo and now to avoid further situation I did pull out from my mobo:
-raid controller
-pci sound card
-dvd reader
-dvd recorder
...and connected all 3 disk on my mobo. The old two ones attached on IDE channel and the new one on one of SATA channels. So now I have a bootable system on sdc disk but can not add any new entries to fstab to auto mount old 2 disks.. Ok I can mount them manually from console after I get in to kde. I really got stuck now with this thing. It appears to me that IDE and SATA disk combination are not somehow supported by suse or at least don't know how to make them work together. I even thougt of bying a IDE -> SATA adapter to conect my 2 old disks directly to SATA channels, but 'm not sure it will be any better. This is getting a reall head ache now
and would very appreciate any new advice from you. Thanks again.