February 2006 - openSUSE Users - openSUSE Mailing Lists

must boot from suse 10 DVD
by Gracia M. Littauer 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

SuSE version 10..clean install a few months ago SATA 160GB HD - 4 partitions xfs no major problems until last wk....I think the was an unnoticed quick power outage; I'm plugged into a APC surge stripe. Everything but the cpu was on. when I tried to reboot I get a little groan from my HD & a black screen with <GRUB loading Stage2.....> on the upper left side and no HD activity. I can boot from the SuSE 10 DVD by going to <other> in the option page & choosing <from installed system>. I tried <repair>, but it can't find any mounted partitions! this even though it boots from them. Yast shows them. We reinstalled the kernel, rewrote mbr, checked the bios, checked logs, checked /etc/fstab, checked my sanity! Any ideas, short of a new clean install & a 1500+ watt UPS!!! -- Gracia...Cooleemee, NC Registered Linux user #263390 - SuSE 10 Pro My country, right or wrong. If right, to be kept right, if wrong, to be put right.

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Share USB ports from a computer to other, Linux to Windows/Linux
by Daniel Carvalho 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

I have a Compaq notebook with Linux RedHat and Windows XP, with only one USB port, and a desktop with SUSE 10 Linux, with 6 USB ports. The issue is that, I broke the notebook unique USB port!!! I found in a store a small device (USB by network) that can share any USB device to the network (10/100). And so, the crazy idea I have in mind now is: to share one of the 6 USB ports from the SUSE desktop to my notebook with Windows and Linux RedHat. Some thing like "USB by IP" protocol!!! :-) Any body has a clue about it? does it make sense?

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Devices on Desktop Stopped Working
by Jon Nelson 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

I'm not sure what happened, but one day I noticed that when I plugged in my compactflash reader, although the device appeared on the desktop, instead of konqueror opening /media/CANON_DC, it tried to open the name of the device with media:/dev/sda1, which did NOT work. What changed, where can I look to fix it, etc...? Does anybody have any idea what to do here? I've rebooted a couple of times and other than that I'm not really sure where to check. If I use a console, /media/CANON_DC *is* mounted and I can access it that way. -- Carpe diem - Seize the day. Carp in denim - There's a fish in my pants! Jon Nelson <jnelson-suse(a)jamponi.net>

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Fwd: OpenSUSE 10.0 hangs at boot (from time to time - not always)
by Martin Soltau 01 Feb '06

01 Feb '06

Hi all, I am new to this mailing-list so please be patient ;-) OK, I have a boot-problem with SUSE 10 on my computer: The Hardware: Dell Dimension 5000, Bios-Version A07 P4(a)3.0 GHz, 3GB RAM, Onboard LAN, ATI X300, Creative Soundblaster Live 24bit 2* Seagate (80 GB + 300 GB) The issue: I was able to install SUSE 10 from DVD (I bought the package). Even with that installation (Online Updates installed, no Packman or other additional software) the system hangs during boot every 5th-6th time. it hangs while the KDE-Login screen is showing, or alternatively JUST before it is about th show (when you see the KDE-Clock) or just immediately after login, while KDE is starting up and loading the user-session. I searched the web and found hints about ACPI-Problems. So I added the boot-option ACPI=OFF. Then I found information about issues with NFS and HyperThreading. The NFS-mounts have been changes to noauto, to make sure they are not processed. Boot-message says: "NFS unused". At last I found postings talking about APIC and LAPIC- So I added the boot-options NOAPIC and NOLAPIC. So I ended up having the following additional boot parameters (besides the SUSE 10 standard ones): ACPI=off, APM=power-off, NOAPIC, NOLAPIC. Result: It still hangs on every 5th-6th boot. That may be an immediate reboot, or one with cold motherboard... just no rules to see. WinXP works fine, SUSE 9.3 did so as well. i opened a service Call with SUSE / NOVELL, but they do not seem to have an idea and it seems as if they still struggle with the reorganisation from suse to novell: Two different Mail addresses, the people working for SUSE 10-Support still have the old Mail address in their footer linking to suse 9.3-suppport who is not responsible and keeps sending back the mails... Mails to the new address are not answered and are not reflected in the status of the web-ticket. So: Does anybody have an idea about where to look at? Which logfile would be interesting? SUSE asked for /var/log/boot.msg but has not responded and that's 5 weeks in the past. I#m not sure, which version of the log is the one to look for, because when I reboot there is a new file written, isn't ist? And the old one (where the system hangs) is gone or reorganised? I would really appreciate any new idea and I'm looking forward to hearing from you. Kind regards, Martin Soltau -------------------------------------------------------

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