Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (6210 mails)

["Matt Stamm" <mattsl@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Vivek R <trs.vivek@xxxxxxxxx>
Date:  Sun, 30 Oct 2005 02:38:45 +0530

>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:
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>> I'm having an install problem with Suse 10. The first CD goes fine, then
>> the system reboots and halts with the following...
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>> GRUB Loading stage1.5
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>> 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.
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>> I purchased Suse 10 from CDW and its is the 32-bit version.
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>> This PC is an AMD Sempron 64. I do get the following message when the
>> install starts...
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>> "Cool Computer but..."
>> "You are installing 32 bit software on a 64 bit machine"
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>> Could this be part of the problem?
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>> 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?
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>> 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...

- Case: Monarch 1150 USB 2.0 Tower Case w/300 Watt Power Supply (Black)

- Motherboard: DFI K8M800-MLV K8M800 Onboard Audio, Video, SATA, LAN, USB, IEEE-1394

- Processor: AMD Sempron 2800+ 256K 90nm (754) w/AMD Certified Opteron/64/FX Heatsink

- Memory: 512 MB DDR (400) PC-3200 Corsair (VS512MB400)

- Hard Drive: Western Digital 80GB SATA 8MB Cache 7200 RPM (WD800JD)

- CD-ROM: LITE-ON SOHR-5239S 52X32X52 CD-RW (Black)
(Retail Box)

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...

- booted to FreeDOS floppy, partitioned and formatted hard drive, everything went fine

- re-booted to floopy and formatted hard drive, went fine

- 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.".

- booted again to the floopy and all the files were on the harddrive.

Just can't boot to it. Any ideas?

Matt