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#1

Hi all :wink:

After changing my motherboard (MB)and ram my suse 11.1 desktop pc is not booting anymore.
I can see the boot menu but then i’m stuck.

I have 4 disks, i plugged the disks exactly as before and the bios is booting on the Western Digital (WD) hard disk(but i have 2 of the same kind which does not help).

If i switch the 2 WD disks connection on the MB i have a Grub #17 error and not boot which makes me think my connections are ok.

Mother Board is Asus P5N T Deluxe,
Ram is 1* 2Go of G Skill DDR2 800 PC2 6400 (i took of the other 2GO for it was impeding the pc to start at all).

Here’s the error message i’m left with :
could not find /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WPC-WD1600PD-07FZB1-WD-WMAES3562221-part2
Want me to fall back on /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WPC-WD1600PD-07FZB1-WD-WMAES3562221-part2 ? (Y/n)
waiting for device to appear … … not found, exiting to /bin/sh

(WD in the error message show this is the Western Digital disk disturbing)

Any idea where it’s coming from and what to do from now ?

Thanks :wink:

#2

You need to boot with the install dvd and repair

#3

Ok, but repair what ? Something specific ?
What has been ‘broken’ ? Why ?

#4

Didn’t you just change your Mobo?

Unless it’s identical. It’s like changing the engine in your car and connecting all the old parts. (Well, that’s just a bit of Hyperbole, but you see what I mean).
I’m trying to remember the exact proceedure. I think you boot and proceed as if for install, then at this page: Installation/11.1 DVD Install - openSUSE
Select the Repair option, automatic, done.

#5

i forgot about this, you’re right : i’ll try this, so far i can’t find my 11.1 install dvd , i need to burn another one.

#6

No worries, let us know if you have problems.

Regards
Carl

#7

:wink:
thanks

ok the repair did work but i could not set up the ethernet config so to have the internet access. I had 2 cards and did not know what to set up, which one …
I had no lights at the switch, and behind the pc which made me think the ethernet outlet was ko. But it’s perfectly ok for when i run system rescue live cd and # net-setup eth0 and then ifcondig 1st of all i have 2 ok ip adress but at 2d try i can set up a correct ip address and and thus have web access.

Could you tell me what to do to have the equivalent on suse ?
i used #net-setup eth0 but it does not work on Suse , i went to yast/hardware and set up the card that was not set up, then reboot but i still have no ip adress when i #ifconfig , so no access to the web.

Thanks :wink:

#8

Assuming nothing has changed at the router end, let’s concentrate at the Box. If this is a PCI card it will likely work better. If on-board could be more tricky.
I could do with knowing what you have. If you open a terminal become su and do:

lscpi -v

post result

#9

some commands in a console did not help for the grep in lib/modules did not work (instead of narrowinf the search , a driver in 0373 …) and the forcedeth driver that’s used by sys rescue live cd is already there (the live cd needs two set ups of the same device, i checked : same mac adress, to be able to have a valid ip adress and then acces the web).

:~> su
Mot de passe :
linux-36s3:/home/fabrice # lspci | grep -i ethernet
00:11.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet (rev a3)
linux-36s3:/home/fabrice # lspci -n
00:00.0 0600: 10de:03a1 (rev a2)
00:00.1 0500: 10de:03ac (rev a1)
00:00.2 0500: 10de:03aa (rev a1)
00:00.3 0500: 10de:03a9 (rev a1)
00:00.4 0500: 10de:03ab (rev a1)
00:00.5 0500: 10de:03a8 (rev a2)
00:00.6 0500: 10de:03b5 (rev a1)
00:00.7 0500: 10de:03b4 (rev a1)
00:01.0 0500: 10de:03ad (rev a1)
00:01.1 0500: 10de:03ae (rev a1)
00:01.2 0500: 10de:03af (rev a1)
00:01.3 0500: 10de:03b0 (rev a1)
00:01.4 0500: 10de:03b1 (rev a1)
00:01.5 0500: 10de:03b2 (rev a1)
00:01.6 0500: 10de:03b3 (rev a1)
00:02.0 0500: 10de:03b6 (rev a1)
00:02.1 0500: 10de:03bc (rev a1)
00:02.2 0500: 10de:03ba (rev a1)
00:03.0 0604: 10de:03b7 (rev a1)
00:09.0 0500: 10de:0369 (rev a2)
00:0a.0 0601: 10de:0360 (rev a3)
00:0a.1 0c05: 10de:0368 (rev a3)
00:0b.0 0c03: 10de:036c (rev a1)
00:0b.1 0c03: 10de:036d (rev a2)
00:0d.0 0101: 10de:036e (rev a1)
00:0e.0 0101: 10de:037f (rev a3)
00:0e.1 0101: 10de:037f (rev a3)
00:0e.2 0101: 10de:037f (rev a3)
00:0f.0 0604: 10de:0370 (rev a2)
00:0f.1 0403: 10de:0371 (rev a2)
00:11.0 0680: 10de:0373 (rev a3)
00:16.0 0604: 10de:0378 (rev a3)
00:18.0 0604: 10de:0377 (rev a3)
01:00.0 0604: 10de:05b1 (rev a2)
02:00.0 0604: 10de:05b1 (rev a2)
02:02.0 0604: 10de:05b1 (rev a2)
05:0b.0 0c00: 1106:3044 (rev c0)
06:00.0 0101: 11ab:6121 (rev b2)
07:00.0 0300: 10de:0292 (rev a1)

linux-36s3:/home/fabrice # uname -r
2.6.27.7-9-pae

linux-36s3:/home/fabrice # grep 10de /lib/modules/uname -r/modules-pcimap | grep 0373
grep: /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-pae/modules-pcimap: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
linux-36s3:/home/fabrice # grep 10de /lib/modules/uname -r/modules-pcimap | grep 0373
grep: /lib/modules/2.6.27.7-9-pae/modules-pcimap: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type

linux-36s3:/home/fabrice # lsmod | sort
af_packet 16596 2
ahci 28488 0
amd74xx 5680 0
ata_generic 4484 0
binfmt_misc 7872 1
button 6560 0
cdrom 32288 1 sr_mod
cfi_cmdset_0002 24012 1
cfi_probe 5404 0
cfi_util 2808 1 cfi_cmdset_0002
chipreg 2868 3 jedec_probe,cfi_probe,ck804xrom
ck804xrom 4744 0
crc_t10dif 1704 1 sd_mod
dm_mod 62236 0
dock 11988 1 libata
edd 8616 0
ehci_hcd 48260 0
ext3 124716 7
fan 4712 0
ff_memless 7244 1 usbhid
floppy 52980 0
forcedeth 53700 0
fuse 52488 1
gen_probe 3212 2 jedec_probe,cfi_probe
hid 35784 1 usbhid
hwmon 3092 1 thermal_sys
i2c_core 29972 1 i2c_nforce2
i2c_nforce2 7128 0
ide_core 99412 2 ide_pci_generic,amd74xx
ide_pci_generic 3428 0
ieee1394 84020 1 ohci1394
ipv6 242608 26
isp1760 18128 0
jbd 56764 1 ext3
jedec_probe 12384 0
joydev 9384 0
libata 161148 5 pata_marvell,ata_generic,ahci,pata_amd,sata_nv
loop 15028 0
map_funcs 1648 1 ck804xrom
mbcache 8132 1 ext3
Module Size Used by
mtd 14940 3 cfi_cmdset_0002,ck804xrom
ohci1394 27664 0
ohci_hcd 31800 0
pata_amd 9984 0
pata_marvell 3404 0
pcspkr 2344 0
processor 44060 1 thermal
rtc_cmos 11488 0
rtc_core 18048 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 2816 1 rtc_core
sata_nv 21364 8
scsi_mod 149804 4 sr_mod,sg,sd_mod,libata
sd_mod 31424 12
serio_raw 5092 0
sg 29376 0
snd 57408 14 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm,snd_timer
,snd_hwdep
snd_hda_intel 413232 3
snd_hwdep 7144 1 snd_hda_intel
snd_mixer_oss 14288 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_page_alloc 8184 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_pcm 79096 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel
snd_pcm_oss 43300 0
snd_seq 52248 0
snd_seq_device 7168 1 snd_seq
snd_timer 21132 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
soundcore 6900 1 snd
sr_mod 13536 0
thermal 19916 0
thermal_sys 11364 3 fan,thermal,processor
usbcore 167604 5 isp1760,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd
usbhid 45908 0