On Sun, Oct 28, PCHintz wrote:
Just installed 7.3 and thought I would share my thoughts. SuSE in my opinion continues to be the "Mercedes Benz of Linux" as I saw them referred to in an article once. Each version is more polished and 7.3 seems to be no exception. However when it comes to ease of installation, I feel SuSE has taken a step back. Having seen other listings lately about trouble with the installation suggests I am not alone.
My install went as normal until the first reboot when the system locked up. Resuming the install, the system again locked up when came time to configure X. I then postponed configuring X until I had the install complete. The system crashed again at the end of the install. Attempting to use SaX2 to configure X afterwards crashed the system repeatedly. Replaced the Voodoo5 5500 with an ATI RADEON with the same result...repeated crashes. I
This sounds like the usual problems with a broken BIOS. Please add "disableapic" as boot option. Then the failsafe option should not longer be necessary. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Deutschherrenstr. 15-19 D-90429 Nuernberg -------------------------------------------------------------------- Key fingerprint = A368 676B 5E1B 3E46 CFCE 2D97 F8FD 4E23 56C6 FB4B