From: juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de Message-ID: <3A25278C.2FA6819D@ruhr-west.de> Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 16:58:04 +0100 Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 7.0 - boot problems...Still... Adrian Burd wrote:

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"kastus" == kastus writes:

kastus> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 12:58:33PM -0600, Adrian Burd kastus> wrote: >> My system is: >> >> 300MHz PII, ASUS Motherboard, 10Gb IDE drive, 256Mb RAM - it >> also has Windows95 on a 2Mb SCSI drive via an Adaptec 2940. >> >> I've previously had SuSE 5.3, 6.0, 6.1, 6.3 on this >> machine. Rather than simply upgrading, I did a fresh install of >> SuSE 7.0 Professional using Yast-1. Everything went fine until >> I attempted to reboot after removing the boot CD at the end of >> the installation. I got the LILO prompt as usual, and after >> typing Linux got the normal Loading Linux message followed by >> 14 periods (.). Then the cursor flipped to a new line and >> froze. Nothing happened at all. >> >> I can boot the installed version from the boot floppy or CD, >> but it doesn't seem to want to boot on its own, and I can't >> seen any error mesages in any of the logs (at least in the >> usual ones). It's almost as if the machine isn't uncompressing >> the kernel for some reason. >> kastus> My guess, the kernel is too big. What kind of kernel did kastus> you install?

I don't think this is the problem. I've tried several of the kernels, my first choice was the Pentium optimized one. In addition, I'm not sure why there should be such a large increase in kernel size between versions if this were the case. In addition, I can boot the installed distribution from the floppy/CD.

So in conclusion, I still cannot boot 7.0 from the hard drive, it hangs without any error messages (at least that I can see) after saying that it's loading the kernel and before uncompressing the kernel. SuSE 6.3 works like a charm and I do nothing different between the two installations (yes I'm anal and write down everything I do).

In addition, I e-mailed suse-support in the middle of last week about this and, apart from their automated response, have not heard a whisper form them.

Are you sure that lilo was run during the install to write the updated MBR? Is *all* of the boot partition below track 1024 otherwise clueless... Juergen PS: you could try to boot with the "boot the installed system" option from floppy / CD <p> -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\