On 12/18/06, Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 22:00 +0100, Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
Hello community !
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
I have a Dell Dimension 8100 (P4, old nvidia card - nothing fancy) at home on which I always run the current SUSE. I tried to install 10.2, but did not get very far. I get the menu to install. No matter which method I choose, the install stops directly after the initial box showing that the kernel is loaded. The screen is blank, and I cannot get to the other virtual terminals to see anything. I tested the DVD in Yast, and it said the media was OK. Any other way I could see what is failing?
Did you try the rescue system, too ?
If this fails, try the option
pci=noacpi
Years ago I had trouble while installing an older version of SuSE. At that time pci=noacpi solved my problem ...
Memtest is also worth a try ...
I have tried this to no avail. I can do the memtest, and all is reported as ok. But any other thing exhibits the same problem. Load the kernel and then a blank screen. I have tried getting to the other virtual terminals to see if it is just the screen driver that is the problem. Nothing. I also tried moving the DVD drive to a different IDE connector to see if it was some off primary/secondary master/slave thing. That made no difference. So, perhaps it will have to stay at 10.1. I plan on setting this up for the in-laws over Christmas and wanted to be rather recent.
Have you updated to latest BIOS?
Never give up !
I never do. Unless I do.
-- Roger Oberholtzer
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