Bug 134164

Summary: upgrading an ASUS notebook from suse 9.2 to opensuse 10
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE.org Reporter: Thilo Pfennig <pfennig>
Component: WikiAssignee: E-mail List <bnc-team-screening>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Adrian Schröter <adrian.schroeter>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: i686   
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Description Thilo Pfennig 2005-11-17 12:58:14 UTC 
Just want to share some experience of an upgrade procedure:

hard ware was an Asus M2400N. Installed software was an updated SuSE 9.2. I nstalled with the 5 cds booting via cd.

following errors occured:
1. external mouse support went off
2. touchpad support went off
3. could not update packages "devs" and "sysvinit"
4. GRUB gave an error "Partition not found " (was "/" ) but nonetheless worked. I did not like that GRUB overwrote existing GRUB that had Fedora as default, though.
5. Could regenerate mouse and touchpad support with sax2 afterwards and also could update the two packages (see above) then.
6. At the end I think only sound support was gone.

So very mixed impressions. As an experienced Linux user no problem but newbies will stop after mouse support is gone.

hope this helps makuing things better.

Thilo Pfennig
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2005-11-17 13:35:39 UTC 
Updatung (specially from older versions) is always critical to a certain degree. GRUB does not overwrite your old bootloader if you configure YaST not to do so. If it does, it is also stated in the summarize screen before the actual installation takes place. Notebooks are especially complicated here.

I will close this bug if there is no specific problem here. If so, please state it (create a single[!] report for each problem) and attach the required information (logfiles, hardware information, ...). If you don't know what is required exactly, please read: http://www.opensuse.org/Submit_a_bug
Comment 2 Thilo Pfennig 2005-11-19 13:32:31 UTC 
you can close this bug if you want. I just wanted to give the informations what went wrong.