On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 14:15 +0100, FX Fraipont wrote:
I've already complained about this, and I will once more. I have repeatedly encountered difficulties installing SuSE 9.3 and 10 on a system with a TFT screen (Sony and Samsung, so I think might/will happen with most TFT's). You get that vga out or range error message which makes it impossible for a newcomer to install SuSe without tinkering with parameters such as vga=[insert your valie here]. I continue to think that this is unacceptable for a linux distribution you pay good money for, and please don't come up with silly arguments like: this si the essence of linux, you've got to be ready to invest browsing docs, and the like.
A friend of mine has just come over with her computer, running SuSe 9.2, and a serious problem: The system won't boot, and complains about reiserfs corruption. After trying all kinds of variations on reiserfschk, she tried --rebuild-tree, without having made a backup of her files (she's a journalist, so it's pretty important). Reiserfschk completed, but the machine still won't boot, so she brought it to me.
I tried to boot after connecting a keyboard and a mouse and a Sony TFT screen, and yes, I got the dreaded vga out of range message. I tried boot options vga=vesa, vga=792, vga=791 and many more, to no avail. Esc twice booted in text mode, and I could see where the reiserfschk fails.
I then tried to rescue her data using a Knoppix 3.4 in German I had from some time ago, and hey presto, it booted straight into kde, without any silly vga out of range error messages, and I was connected to the internet and could browse her reiserfs partition and burn a dvd with her data without intervening at any moment.
If Knoppix can do it, why can't SuSE?
And what happened when you tried the SUSE install DVD to boot to rescue mode? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998