[PLUG] Intel Mac Pro and SuSE SLES 10

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Sat Mar 31 16:48:01 UTC 2007


On 3/27/07, Ken Stephens <kens at cad2cam.com> wrote:
> I have been trying to load SuSE 10 on a Mac Pro (not Mac Book) because
> that's what my customer wants to use to design chips.  SLES 10 loads
> with difficulties as you might guess.  I have to load the mii utilities
> manually to manage the e1000 NIC.  The CD is unreadable, but once
> networking is going I don't need the CD. Partitioning is the next
> bugaboo. The disk labels or unreadable and the partition tables are
> unreadable by the auto partitioning routine, so switch to the shell and
> do fdisk on the 3 750 GB drives.  The installation progresses until the
> grub install where it fails.  I switched to the shell again and
> discovered the /dev/sd* files mission, but the build environment had
> them could not use mknod but a tar copied the files to the installation
> dev directories.  Once they were there grub-install seemed to work.  But
> no joy.  No boot.  What next?

Install grub to /boot and use rEFIt for the bootloader.

-- 
Dan



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