Hi All I am having this exact problem installing Enterprise Server 9 on a Fujitsu Siemens machine with SATA disks. I noticed in this email that one poster questions whether or not the machine is an FS machine, can anyone tell me more about this. Is there a known problem? Thanks Brendan Message-ID: <43789634.4010806@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:50:44 +0100 From: Clayton Subject: Re: [opensuse] Cannot install SUSE 10.0 - only get a black screen immediately after Grub /> Then your problem is clear. You have a BIOS bug. / Dang... Ok, that's something we can deal with.. have to go hunting on the MSI site for a new BIOS and flash it. My brother can do that... I hope :-) /> sata controller BIOS). Explanation: The EDD code calls into the BIOS / /> before the kernel enters protected mode, so if that call hangs, your / /> machine will not boot. / Interesting.. that's good to know... /> Hm, is your computer by any chance manufactured by Fujitsu-Siemens? / Nope. It's a "home built" system, assembled from various individual bits. /> Did I understand correctly that you can boot into Linux with SATA / /> enabled and edd=off? If not, can you find a pattern when Linux with SATA / /> works, like only the first time after switching on the machine, or only / /> if no CD/DVD was in any drive or something like that? / I tried listing all the combinations we've tried... but I have ot check again with my brother... just to be sire... so I'll try to follow up on this later. We do have a fairly repeatable pattern where Linux will boot initially (without the edd=off param), but if we enable SATA at any point and boot to Windows, then disable SATA and try to boot Linux it's dead, and remains dead. only a reinstall seems to "resurrect" it again. Using edd=off, and with SATA enabled, we were able to get it working, but there were still intermittent boot problems - sometimes it will take 3 or 4 tries to get Linux to boot. We will try a BIOS update, and I'll try to get a complete list of the combinations we've tried and results... C. -- Brendan McNally Systems & Network Administrator I d i r o T e c h n o l o g i e s 8 - 10 Avondale Hall, Carysfort Avenue Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland T. +353 1 279 6439 E. brendan.mcnally@idiro.com W. www.idiro.com