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@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 -------------------------------------------------------