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 ;-) -- 2 min spaeter... "Hach, so sind sie meine Jungens..." Lach... :-) Echt, wie die kleinen Bengels... Und nu kommt nicht mit "Mama, der hat aber angefangen und sich nicht an die Etikette gehalten". [Jessica Bleche in suse-linux]