Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

["Matt Stamm" <mattsl@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Tom McCutcheon" <tom@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date:  Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:27:40 -0600

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Matt Stamm [mailto:mattsl@xxxxxxxxx] 
>Sent: Monday, October 31, 2005 12:09 PM
>To: suse-linux-e@xxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [SLE] Suse 10 will not install
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>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: Vivek R <trs.vivek@xxxxxxxxx>
>Date:  Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:38:45 +0530
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>>hi,
>>send your configuration that will help to know more abt your problem..
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>>regards,
>>vi
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>>On 10/29/05, Stamm <mattsl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm having an install problem with Suse 10. The first CD goes fine, then
>>> the system reboots and halts with the following...
>>>
>>> GRUB Loading stage1.5
>>>
>>> This is on a brand new PC purchased this month from Monarch Computer
>>> Systems. They are now offering to pre-install Suse 10 but were not when I
>>> ordered the system 3 weeks ago.
>>>
>>> I purchased Suse 10 from CDW and its is the 32-bit version.
>>>
>>> This PC is an AMD Sempron 64. I do get the following message when the
>>> install starts...
>>>
>>> "Cool Computer but..."
>>> "You are installing 32 bit software on a 64 bit machine"
>>>
>>> Could this be part of the problem?
>>>
>>> Another point, I noticed this has a SATA hard drive. After some Googling
>I
>>> found out that SATA support is pretty new to Linux. Could this be a
>problem?
>>>
>>> I've been using Suse 8.1 since it was released and that was my last linux
>>> install, so I'm a little rusty.
>>>
>>> Pleas help!!
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>Vi,
>
>Here's my configuration...
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>- Case: Monarch 1150 USB 2.0 Tower Case w/300 Watt Power Supply (Black)
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>- Motherboard: DFI K8M800-MLV K8M800 Onboard Audio, Video, SATA, LAN, USB,
>IEEE-1394
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>- Processor: AMD Sempron 2800+ 256K 90nm (754) w/AMD Certified Opteron/64/FX
>Heatsink
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>- Memory: 512 MB DDR (400) PC-3200 Corsair (VS512MB400)
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>- Hard Drive: Western Digital 80GB SATA 8MB Cache 7200 RPM (WD800JD)
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>- CD-ROM: LITE-ON SOHR-5239S 52X32X52 CD-RW (Black)
>(Retail Box)
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>Here's another thing I just noticed, and I posted this in response to Paul's
>suggestion. I wanted to see if I could install FreeDOS on this PC and had
>the following problem...
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>- booted to FreeDOS floppy, partitioned and formatted hard drive, everything
>went fine
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>- re-booted to floopy and formatted hard drive, went fine
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>- re-booted to floopy and Installed FreeDOS on harddrive using SYS, and
>copied files to harddrive. No problems
>
>- tried to boot to harddrive and recieved same error "GRUB Loading
>stage1.5.".
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>- booted again to the floopy and all the files were on the harddrive.
>
>Just can't boot to it. Any ideas?
>
>Matt
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>I don't know if it works the same with 10.0 or not, but with the beta
>version you had to have the installation verify each cd before you could
>install them all this may be your problem.  Hope this helps.
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Tom,

How do you have the install "verify" each CD??

Matt