As you wrote before, your Mac is one of the beige G3's, isn't it? So the internal HD is an IDE one.
Yepp, just right.
Which way do you boot from the Suse CD? IMHO you should use BootX...
Sure.
When the kernel is booting, can you see any output concerning your HD Controller?
pmac_ide: enabling ide bus 0 pmac_ide: enabling ide bus 1
Try <Alt-F2> somewhere during the first steps of the installation
This trick didn't work. However, when I autoloaded modules I got a complete dmesg and, well, there were only abouve two lines about ide. No hint of a found ide device. I am trying to install on a 217 MB scsi MO, however I only could format it but not partition. So long Thiemo -- Thiemo Kellner Tösstalstrasse 146 CH-8400 Winterthur Tel./Fax: 052/232'26'41 http://home.sunrise.ch/thiemo/home.html