On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 22:00 +0100, Reinhard Gimbel wrote:

Hello community !

Roger Oberholtzer wrote:

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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.

Never give up !

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Have you updated to latest BIOS?

BTW having the latest BIOS can actually cause problems, in some cases, as the refresh rates can be changed and it may caused at least in my case it did a problem of not being able to run a graphical environment. Thought I mention this, in your case you are already running 10.1 so that is probably not related. If your media is OK try using it on a different PC if you have a spare, -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 13:45 -0500, Darko Gavrilovic wrote:

On 12/18/06, George Stoianov wrote:

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Have you updated to latest BIOS?

BTW having the latest BIOS can actually cause problems, in some cases, as the refresh rates can be changed and it may caused at least in my case it did a problem of not being able to run a graphical environment.

Thats true. Though I my experiece, with SUSE on a Dell, I had graphics problems which fixed themselves with the Bios update. So it varies.

But a messed-up BIOS can be a real pain to revert.

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Thought I mention this, in your case you are already running 10.1 so that is probably not related.

This is what I thought.

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If your media is OK try using it on a different PC if you have a spare,

This I have done. As well as doing a media check in the same PC from Yast in 10.1. It likes the DVD. I am thinking I may try to use a CD for this. But as I leave for the in-laws this weekend, I may not push my lick.

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