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Re: [opensuse-factory] Strange problem
  • From: "Kevin R. Garand" <krgace@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:56:13 -0500
  • Message-id: <43DADD4D.6050407@xxxxxxx>


Peter Buschbacher wrote:
Am Sa Januar 28 2006 02:32 schrieb Kevin R. Garand:
Hello All,

I installed OpenSuSe 10.1 beta with all the updates on a Dell Optiplex,
with Windows XP on the first partition. Basically Windows was installed first, and then on the free space Open SuSE was installed. Now during reboot, I get just the Dell POST screen, it goes black, and then the Dell POST screen again, and this would go on forever if I let it.

Is there any message from Grub?
None, there are no messages
I know it hardly seems like an SuSe problem because it is barely getting
to the boot process.

I don´t want to make you panic, but it reminds me of my first experience with my Laptop. In that case the harddisk was broken (from transport I think) and after 2 days of installing suddenly I could not boot anymore. Try mounting the harddisk from a Knoppix other Live-Distro to exclude this case. 2 identical Dell machines with identical installs, 2 identical problems. I installed this on my machine and hadn't rebooted left it running to get updates. A coworker wanted to look at Linux, let him borrow the install CD's. He installed as I did, and was running fine. He rebooted got this problem, so I rebooted and have the same thing. Rule out hardware here.
I apologize in advance if this isn't the proper procedure for this type of thing, but I do not know how to create a bug
report (if it is) and I am looking for help. Thank you in advance as
well. BIOS has been put back to hard drive as first device as I booted
from CD-ROM to install.
BIOS sees the hard drive so it is installed and working (and even worked fine before the reboot) I am thinking it's boot loader thing, how do I edit this?

I don´t think your BIOS has anything to do with that. To me it´s quite comfortable to have CD-ROM as first boot-device.
I agree, I just wanted to make sure I eliminated someone's response of "make the hard drive the first device." I am in IT, I know that much. lol
Good Luck
Peter

Again, many apologies if needed as well as many thanks for any advice.



AceMan

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