Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 12:58:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Adrian Burd
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Subject: SuSE 7.0 - boot problems
My system is:
300MHz PII, ASUS Motherboard, 10Gb IDE drive, 256Mb RAM - it also has
Windows95 on a 2Mb SCSI drive via an Adaptec 2940.
I've previously had SuSE 5.3, 6.0, 6.1, 6.3 on this machine. Rather than
simply upgrading, I did a fresh install of SuSE 7.0 Professional using
Yast-1. Everything went fine until I attempted to reboot after removing
the boot CD at the end of the installation. I got the LILO prompt as
usual, and after typing Linux got the normal Loading Linux message
followed by 14 periods (.). Then the cursor flipped to a new line and
froze. Nothing happened at all.
I can boot the installed version from the boot floppy or CD, but it
doesn't seem to want to boot on its own, and I can't seen any error
mesages in any of the logs (at least in the usual ones). It's almost as if
the machine isn't uncompressing the kernel for some reason.
To make sure that I hadn't screwed up the hardware or anything, I did a
complete re-install of 6.3 using as near as possible the same settings as
with the 7.0 installation. Works like a dream.
Does anyone have any ideas? I've been beating my head on this one for a
few days now without any joy.
Thanks,
Adrian
<p><p><p>Adrian Burd, Dpt. Oceanography, Texas A&M University
http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/~ecomodel
