Greetings,
I have 2x320GB disks on RAID0, divided into the following partitions:
1x4GB swap
1x40GB ext4 (where there’s a Ubuntu 10.10 installation that I wish to replace by OpenSUSE 12.1)
1x50GB NTFS (where there’s a Windows 7 installation that must be preserved)
1x500GB NTFS (where I save my personal data so I can access it both from Windows and Linux - also must be preserved)
1x100MB NTFS (automatically created by windows 7)
When I run the OpenSUSE 12.1 installer, the YaST Partitioner only detects the NTFS partitions (I’ve tested both the USB live version and the DVD installer). A screenshot from YaST partitioner on my system is available here: View image: yast
My question: How can I detect my old linux partitions on OpenSUSE 12.1? I cannot re-format everything, so the only way for me to install would be to detect the ext4 (and swap) partitions.
Additional info: When I start the installer, it tells me the following:
You are running on the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager compatible platform.
Following MD compatible RAID devices were detected:
Volume0
If they are clean devices or contain partitions then you can choose to use
MD Partitionable RAID sysbsystem to handle them. In case of clean device you
will be able to install system on it and boot from such RAID.
Do you want MD Partitionable RAID subsystem to manage those partitions?
If I select “Yes”, it doesn’t detect any of my partitions (not even the NTFS ones).
Another info: I re-started the live usb stick and noticed that, apparently, all my drives were detected by nautilus. When I got to the YaST partitioner, however, none of them were detected. Then, I clicked “Rescan Devices”, which made only the NTFS partitions to be detected by YAST. Besides, the ext4 partitions disappeared from the nautilus devices list. Here is a list of devices by UUID from before and after I executed “Rescan Devices”:
Before:
linux@linux:/dev> ls disk/by-uuid/
0A8E4CD08E4CB5CB 3384fe60-be08-4536-b1fb-f8394f44f00b 500AD3E10AD3C1E0 77456e5b-aa8d-4811-9dd2-fa3850603f66 B2466B32466AF70F b89afc3c-ca62-49c1-b060-3203f3b0757c
After:
linux@linux:/dev> ls disk/by-uuid/
0A8E4CD08E4CB5CB 500AD3E10AD3C1E0 77456e5b-aa8d-4811-9dd2-fa3850603f66 B2466B32466AF70F
For all I know, b89afc3c-ca62-49c1-b060-3203f3b0757c is the 40gb device which contains a ubuntu installation.
I don’t know, but if this was me and I wanted to use this Raid with openSUSE, why not wait till openSUSE 12.2 comes out in six weeks or so, which will support grub 2, like Ubuntu, and have the latest kernel 3.4? Else, consider loading openSUSE 12.1 on a separate hard drive, even an external one, until then. We can help with such a setup or even just use a LiveCD or a LiveUSB ( S.C.L.U. - SuSE Create Live USB - Version 1.10 - Blogs - openSUSE Forums).
Thank You,
Well, I guess I could wait until the next release, although I’m not sure this issue could be related to the grub version (or to the current OpenSUSE kernel version), given that I had no problem installing Ubuntu 10.10 a few months after its release. Anyways, in the meantime, I guess I’ll stick with my old distro.
Thanks