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. Hi Martin, I don't know whether your problem is the same as mine, but I have had
Martin Soltau wrote: the same hangings (just as you described, at first it hanged up when trying to switch to login screen, next times he won't boot at all, hanged up somewhere in the middle). In my case I just rebuilded file system tree(I booted from Rescue System from CD) with "fsck.reiserfs --rebuild-tree /dev/hdaX" and all went gone. Note: I am newbie in Linux, so I don't know whether is it a good thing to rebuild file system (there was a lot of warnings I noticed only after running fsck...), but it helped in my case... sm