Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3065 mails)

[Phil Savoie <psavoie1783@xxxxxxxxxx>]

rschwedler wrote:
> On Sunday 01 June 2008 03:45:05 pm Phil Savoie wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have an asus m2n-sli motherboard with one sata and one ide drive
> > installed. the ide drive has windows xp and the 1 terebyte sata drive
> > has nothing and is to be used for the suse install.
> >
> > The darn things has given me nothing but grief with the suse install.
> > If I boot normally to install I get a black screen and hangs.  If I do a
> > nolocal apic install it gets stuck at the activating usbs and goes no
> > further if I do the no acpi install it hangs on loading sata_nv and the
> > same for the safe settings install.
> >
> > Any help would be great, please!
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil
>
> Just for fun have you tried to install  with hwprobe=-modules.pata boot 
> options?   
> rsschwedler

Yes, sir i just did (thanks for the response) and now hangs at the 
Activating usb devices...

Not even getting into the installer yet...

Phil
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