…and then it doesn’t.
I think I mentioned before that I was fairly sick.of SuSE (hence my wholesale move to Ubuntu) but I was recently presented with a broken machine from a friend that needed fixing.
This box was a SuSE 10.0 install running the rather superb Zoneminder CCTV security monitoring software. Unfortunately, this box had died completely.
Initial inspection found the fault easily; a set of expanded / blown capacitors next to the CPU.
So, without further ado, I aquired a replacement socket A nforce2 motherboard. Of course, the new nforce chipset differed from the VIA chipset on the original board and when the HHD was transferred over, this was to cause problems.
Of course, it never appears as the required module for the new nforce2 controller is not available to the bootloader.
The Fix:
I downloaded and burned to CD the first disk in the SuSE 10.0 install set. (not the mini boot iso!)
I then booted from this CD and selected install.
At the point I was asked if I wanted to do a ‘new installation’ I selected ‘other’ and ‘repair’. I then selected expert repair (my delusions showing again).
From the expert repair menu, I told it to rewrite the bootloader (with the default options).
Then reboot and hey-presto, it’s working again.
Full disclosure: it took me about 4 hours to work this out as the correct fix!
Note: The nforce NIC also had to be confgured in my case using YAST.
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