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I then rebooted it, and it gives me 3 options at load: Linux, Windows, and Failsafe. Windows loads. Failsafe gives me a prompt, and I can access the root account from there. Linux however just goes through a loadup sequence, and then the screen goes blank instead of offering me login options.
I'm no expert, but I have put SuSE on several laptops and I imagine the problem is the video card. After choosing linux, do you mean that you see a long sequence of test results and drivers loading, then a black screen? I have seen this many times. SuSE has chosen a wrong video driver or screen resolution. The black screen is the X server, without having initiated properly. Check this by doing a Ctl-Alt-F2. You will get a black screen with Login:, login as root, do an init 3--this will kill the X server. Still as root, run sax or yast2 from the command line--I prefer yast2. Navigating witht he TAB and Arrow keys, choose hardware, then Display for video card details, Framebuffer for available resolutions and maybe Framebuffer Device. (Or, you can get all this information from XP.) After you have all the info on the hardware, back out of all the screens back to the beginning and choose Hardware>>Graphics Card and Monitor and set linux up with your hardware. Ed Harrison SuSE 9.1, Kernel 2.6.9-vanilla PolarBar Mailer 1.25a