http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235 User onemic80@yahoo.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235#c1 --- Comment #1 from Ludwi Samoen 2009-06-17 22:33:51 MDT --- Please help, I can't get anything done because the OS won't boot at all. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235 User markgray+to-suse@puck.nac.net added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235#c3 Mark Gray changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |markgray+to-suse@puck.nac.n | |et --- Comment #3 from Mark Gray 2009-06-18 14:00:30 MDT --- I had this happen (2 or three times) with very old versions of SuSE on an HP laptop of mine. HP technical help gave me a special reset technique to fix it which involved removing the battery and power, then while holding 4 particular keys down, plugging in the power, waiting 30 seconds, releasing those keys and powering up again. Apparently the bios (on my HP) had gotten into an "illegal state" which is only escapable using the reset technique. Just my 2 cents worth, but your Lenovo may have a similar problem (probably requiring a very different reset technique.) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235 User seife@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235#c5 --- Comment #5 from Stefan Seyfried 2009-06-23 07:02:18 MDT --- If the machine does not even want to boot from the Install DVD, it is certainly the BIOS that is confused, like suggested in comment #3. I'd try (in this order) - remove battery and power, wait for 10 minutes, reinsert battery and power, try to boot again - check if there is a special reset technique explained in the documentation of the machine - call Lenovo support and ask them for help. I'd also not rule out broken hardware, wich might just have happened at the time the machine suspended or tried to resume. As long as neither GRUB nor the install DVD boots, there is unfortunately nothing we can do here :-( -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235 User seife@novell.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235#c7 Stefan Seyfried changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|P5 - None |P3 - Medium CC| |rjw@novell.com --- Comment #7 from Stefan Seyfried 2009-07-08 06:50:00 MDT --- If you get another linux booted, try to investigate the boot sector and try to do a mkswap on the swap partition (this will kill the hibernation image, but that's our least concern here). If you swap partition is /dev/sda2 (for example), try mkswap /dev/sda2 as root. I'm still at a total loss why the machine does not boot, and I do not know what is the best advice to proceed here, especially as the openSUSE DVD does not boot anymore and you are not an epxert :-( (the openSUSE DVD has an "rescue" mode, that could it be used, would try to correct things). If you were an expert, I'd advise you to boot the Mint Linux, chroot into your SUSE system and try to fix the MBR / grub from there... however, that's not without risk and if done wrong might also kill the Windows partition :-( I suspect that the BIOS has actually done somehting wrong (there are some BIOS calls during suspend to disk, to tell the BIOS that the machine is now suspended and not simply turned off, this makes for a faster resume on some machines etc), probably resulting in a broken MBR and now the BIOS gets confused when looking at this MBR and even refuses to boot from some DVDs. This is of course only a guess, but it's the only possible scenario I can think of. I do not think it is a generic Linux bug, since this is the only time I have heard of such a bug, and with quite some hibernation users, I would expect it to trigger more than only once. So how do we get out of this? ============================= Probably the safest way right now is: - if there is important data on your Linux partition (probably the home directories...), back it up using the Mint Linux, by copying it to a USB harddrive or a Network drive - then install Mint Linux onto the harddrive. I don't know it, but it surely has an option to keep the Windows installation. This will hopefully install a correct Master Boot Record and boot loader and will make the machine bootable again - If you are happy with Mint Linux (and I would understand if you'd not want to try SUSE again, after this happenend - even though I'm pretty sure that we are not to blame ;), just use that. - If not, install openSUSE again. - restore your data from the external drive. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235 User onemic80@yahoo.com added comment http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514235#c9 --- Comment #9 from Ludwi Samoen 2009-07-22 21:07:31 MDT --- It worked. I reinstalled the boot loader using another distro. This is so I can boot from the openSUSE DVD. Then using the openSUSE DVD I reinstalled the openSUSE's. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.