Sid Boyce wrote:
Check dmesg to see if there are any clues during boot. I take it you've not rearranged your disks, having 2 master drives on that IDE port. Swap it to another IDE port, say hdb and set the BIOS to boot from cdrom to test it's not failing, with a bad primary IDE port, I swapped the DVD from /dev/hdb to /dev/hdc and it booted without any other changes. Regards Sid.
I think I found the possible problem. My DVD drive is either dirty of somehow defective. I tried inserting the SuSE 9.2 DVD (1) into /dev/dvd and it took a long time to finally show what is on the disk. I decided to disable the DVD drive in YAST (remove the link /dev/dvd > hde) and created my own link (dev/dvd > hdc). The drive connected to hdc is a dvd writer with several links: /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvdrecorder, and now /dev/dvd. In summary XINE now works great. I guess over the weekend I'll check out the "defective" dvd device. Maybe it is simply a dirty lens. -- SuSE Linux 9.2 (i586) -- 2.6.8-24.16-default -- Mon 07/18/05 9:20pm up 1:34, 3 users, load average: 0.24, 0.26, 0.28