On 8/27/06, John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> wrote:
But Carl... The drive worked well enough to install the system, and only froze up when grub went into its second stage.
but I would not even call it a "freeze up" .. the system just fails to boot an os after the first reboot. Or, it fails to recognize that there IS an os there, to boot.
Its just as likely that some (perhaps wrong) driver is being loaded, and falling back to a generic driver would work.
is there a relatively simple method for deciding what the troubled driver is, and then identifying the appropriate generic driver? Or -- perhaps it really is an object lesson is being sure about the "linux support" of a particular system board. My freind (hopefully) can exchange this for one that is more generally supported by the various novell distro flavors.... if we do go this way ... can I extropolate "NLD9" support to mean also SLED10/suse10.1 support? peter