Larry J. Linder wrote:
After reading a lot of the failure reports and noise.
We had some problems with one of the download servers. This has been fixed.
Where people were able to get a good download and DVD burn, there
haven't been install problems.
Are the available distributions what we are going to live with for the
immediate future?
It's released, yes. Until SL 5.5.
When I read the release notes for SL 5.4 there is no mention of the S ATA
problem or it being fixed.
SATA bug fixes are really a driver and upstream vendor issue.
They have changed the way they do their release notes, so those issues
are not pulled out and are in more detail. You can find it here.
http://www.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5.4/html-single/Technical_Notes/
And there are a few things that might have fixed your SATA problem.
*Bug fixes:
- when using the aic94xx driver, a system with SATA drives may not boot
due to a bug in libsas.
- a bug in aic94xx may have caused kernel panics during boot on some
systems with certain SATA disks.
- fixed an issue in which sata_nv was not included in the initramfs.
That last issue might have fixed the problem that you were seeing since
you were using a motherboard with an nvidia chipset
NVidea problems I had with SL 5.3 can be taken care of by disabling the video
module at install and boot up and just set the desired display resolution.
Thank for tip from a SL user.
When I tried to install SL 5.3 on 64 bit system with Serial ATA disks. The
installation just hangs. I have Suse 11. on this system but really would
like to use SL. Suse 11.1 - 11.3 has the same NVidea problem.
The ISO images for SL 5.4 were down loaded a few weeks ago and I wonder if
its worth the effort to make the disks and install SL 5.4. since the release
notes never said any thing about the SATA interface or at least I didn't find
it.
A few weeks ago SL 5.4 was *not* released. If you are worried about all
of the above things, and then are willing to install a beta instead of
the final release, I'm a bit surprised.
Download the final release. Do an md5sum and/or sha1sum on the image,
and use that image.
Troy
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