Lonn wrote
Sergey,
Did you accidentally copy the distribution to your root? If so, could have overwritten much you didn't want it to. Also, was the copy successful, or did you fill a partition without noticing it. You said you copied the distribution, turned the computer off, and next AM it wouldn't boot.
Lonn, I created folder "SuSE Distrib" in the folder "root" which is on the same level as "etc". I copied it not using a shell, just from GUI (famous Drag'n'Drop). Copy was successfully, but one think I am thinking about that my SuSE(hda6 which failed to mount) is only 10 Gb and I have 1Gb for swap space. More obviously my hda6 did not fully fill with that DVD, but I think very little space left there. Besides next time I installed SuSE, I copied only that DVD and it failed again, so there were a lot of space, but maybe even it was not enough for him. Really I have no ideas. And what I also wondering on...why he didn't want to install anything from that directory (before the unfortunate restarting)?...it's the same DVD. I am thinking of copying that DVD to my another partitions (for Windows hda1 or hda5), but I don't know will it be acceptable for him and won't that problem come again.
Did you do a proper shutdown? Have you checked the filesystem? 'fsck' for some other systems, must be similar on SuSE 10 -- if your rescue media will load. Yes, I have done a proper shutdown but didn't check the filesystem. I am afraid of doing it again but it seems like I'll have try one more time.
Best, Sergey Mkrtchyan