I did a upgrade from opensuse 10.3 to 11.1. I used a DVD. First I had some problems with the method of mounting by devices (This method is not save… please start the old system and change) the upgrade process worked fine, lasting about one and a half hours.
After rebooting a bad surprise: The system is searching for the HDDs, but they won’t respond. The repair function on the DVD can’t find any error in the boot system (fsck) or the fstab, but it doesn’t boot!
Screen messages:
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scsi subsystem initialized
scsi0: pata_via
scsi1: pata_via
ata1: PATA max UDMA/66 cmd 01f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xd800 irq 14
ata2: PATA max UDMA/66 cmd 01f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xd800 irq 15
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
ata1.00: failed to read native max adress (err_mask=0x4)
ata1.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
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ata1.00: disabled
then change to UDMA/33 - the same
then change to MWDMA - the same
then change to PIO5 - the same
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then change to PIO0 - nothing works, all HDD
Now I managed to start an old opensuse on another HDD (IBM-DTLA-307030), so I’m able to read and edit my defective 11.1 HDD (Maxtor_6Y160P0). I would gather every information You need.
Here are the fstab from the defective 11.1 Maxtor_6Y160P0:
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y160P0_Y489VPVE-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y160P0_Y489VPVE-part2 / ext3 data=writeback,acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200JB-00KFA0_WD-WCAMR2971191-part1 /Windows98SE vfat user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /WIN98_online vfat user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200JB-00KFA0_WD-WCAMR2971191-part5 /webfiles vfat user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2QHRKYE-part5 /webfiles_alt vfat user,noauto,users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
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
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
Note: There is a swap partition and one common opensuse partition.
On the following drive there are a swap, a programm and a data partition. Here are the fstab from the working HDD:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-307030_YKEYKV4M476-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-307030_YKEYKV4M476-part3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-307030_YKEYKV4M476-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
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
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/fd1 /media/floppy1 auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200JB-00KFA0_WD-WCAMR2971191-part1 /windows/C vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200JB-00KFA0_WD-WCAMR2971191-part5 /windows/E vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2QHRKYE-part1 /windows/D vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080L0_Y2QHRKYE-part5 /windows/F vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-15 0 0
I’ve heared there should be a document like MS-Bootlog, but I don’t know where.