Well update this morning is that it appears to be a Windows thing. I followed the instructions below, and fixed my installation. Booted into SUSE just fine. The problem occurs when you boot into Windows, and then restart. After this, you get the continuous Dell POST loop. Just an FYI, in case anyone has another solution. Thanks again in advance. Kevin On Jan 28, 2006, at 5:55 PM, Christian Boltz wrote:
Hello,
Am Samstag, 28. Januar 2006 02:32 schrieb Kevin R. Garand:
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.
Does this mean you have a "reboot loop"? If yes: I had this in one of the early 10.0 betas, but it worked in the later ones and in final also.
Maybe you have more luck with using lilo ;-)
To change to lilo (and to verify it is really a bootloader problem): Boot from install CD, somewhere after the license, click the "other" button and change "boot installed system". Mount your harddisk to / mnt.
If everything worked up to now, you have verified that it is a bootloader problem.
Now chroot /mnt and call yast2 bootloader (maybe you need to install the lilo RPM before doing this).
And please report this bug - see http://bugs.opensuse.org In this case, I'd recommend to append the YaST2 logs - see http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST for information about how to get them.
BTW: If you already have a login for opensuse.org or any Novell site, you can use it for bugzilla also.
Regards,
Christian Boltz
PS: The grub configuration posted by Joseph looks broken to me ;-) Here's my working configuration in 10.0 [1] - of course you need to change it to your partitioning:
--- /boot/grub/menu.lst --- color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/message
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title SUSE LINUX 10.0 root (hd0,4) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x342 selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda2 splash=silent showopts # everything from kernel to showopts is _one_ line! initrd /boot/initrd
PPS: From your other mail:
Again, I may have been wrong for posting this here,
You are perfectly right here :-) - this list is for discussing alpha and beta versions. However, if you find something that is obviously a bug, you can go to bugzilla directly.
[1] grub of 10.1 beta1 only shows the grub> prompt (bug #144688), but that seems to be a different bug ;-)
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