On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 06:23:01PM +0100, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
* Stefano Lodi <adm@db.deis.unibo.it> [020209 17:53]:
The details of the problem: - At this point the first real problem occurred. The installation program rebooted again but the boot process freezed after starting kdm. The monitor switched to powersave mode and Ctrl-Alt-Del was disabled. (Jan-Christoph Westermann reported a similar problem on January 31st in this list, I believe.)
Initialization can take quite a while. During this period, screen is black. What graphics adaptor do you use?
I noticed that KDE takes a long time even when using startx, but I waited half an hour. I also tried to connect the monitor to the second output, but nothing was there either. So I powercycled the machine. The IBM 6894-10X uses Matrox G450, according to the specs at IBM's site. SuSE installed a G400. I will try to set to G450, although with startx everything seems to work fine.
- Now the really unexpected part. We created a partition with label "FAT16" and formatted it with mkdosfs -v -F 16 /dev/sda3. - We copied /boot/elilo.efi and /boot/vmlinuz to the DOS partition. - Rebooted. EFI could not see the DOS partition. However, the physical device is there, in the output of the map command. (EFI recognized only fs0:, the boot partition made visible by the installation cd.) We also checked later that the partition was readable.
Have you tried activating the partition or giving it the bootable flag?
I toggled the `bootable' flag, but EFI still refuses to see it. How do I `activate' a partition? I found an activating button in Yast2, but that's inside a Lilo configuration area. I this what you made reference to?
Best regards, Stefan Reinauer
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-- Stefano Lodi, PhD Researcher Dept. of Electronics, C.S. and Systems & Faculty of Statistical Sciences University of Bologna, ITALY