Anders Norrbring wrote:

On 2005-10-20 08:11 Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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I have downloaded one of the SuSE10 from ftp:/mirrors.kernel.org/suse/i386/10.0/iso.

The filename is SUSE-10.0-DVD-SRC-GM.iso

I have the content visble on:

http://www.urbakken.dk/suse10.png

I'm not able to get the DVD to boot from my DVD drive. What could be the reason(s)?.

Erik Jakobsen

Hello Erik, The reason is that the DVD image SUSE-10.0-DVD-SRC-GM.iso you've downloaded is the SOURCE package DVD, it isn't bootable, and it only contains the source code for the distribution.

The SuSE 10 distribution is on the SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso image.

Hello Anders. Oh I see. Thanks for the information, and I'll start the long download again, and erase my DVD+RW media :-) Erik

Steve Graegert wrote:

On 10/21/05, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

At exactly which point does it fail? The bootloader works properly and the kernel loads perfectly? Have you tried booting without ACPI or booting the live system?

\Steve

Yes the bootloader works ok, and so do the kernelloading. I have booted with and without the ACPI. I haven't tried to boot the live system, but I will download it to see if it works. Erik Jakobsen

On 10/21/05, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

Steve Graegert wrote:

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On 10/21/05, Erik Jakobsen wrote:

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Hi again.

Now I have downloaded the SUSE-10.0-EvalDVD-i386-GM.iso, and burnt it on a DVD.

It boots ok, but shortly after, the screen tells:

At exactly which point does it fail? The bootloader works properly and the kernel loads perfectly? Have you tried booting without ACPI or booting the live system?

\Steve

Now the SuSE LiveDVD has been burnt, but I still get "Input Not Supported" on my TFT LCD monitor. Could it be something with the monitor ?.

I don't think it's the monitor, since it's not an input device :-) and everything seems to be displayed properly, right? Could you please be more specific about the context of the failure. For instance, what is the last line you read before the error occurs or what is beeing loaded when it happens? \Steve

Steve Graegert wrote:

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Now the SuSE LiveDVD has been burnt, but I still get "Input Not Supported" on my TFT LCD monitor. Could it be something with the monitor ?.

Do you mean nothing appears on the monitor except the little 'out of range' message? If it's what you see, you are a victim of an irritating SuSe problem : you have to supply boot options such as vga=vesa or vga=792 (my values), and this solves the problem.

Fx

* FX Fraipont [10-21-05 08:45]:

Do you mean nothing appears on the monitor except the little 'out of range' message? If it's what you see, you are a victim of an irritating SuSe problem : you have to supply boot options such as vga=vesa or vga=792 (my values), and this solves the problem.

If that's the case, you have merely side-stepped the problem rather than correcting it. "out of range" would indicate an incorrect scan rate, vertical or horizontal. Obtain the correct frequencies for your monitor (from windoz install disk or off mfgr's web site) and edit/insert correct values into /etc/X11/[XF86Config or xorg.conf] with your favorite editor or sax/sax2 in a runlevel < 5. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

* Erik Jakobsen [10-21-05 09:18]:

You have to understand, that I haven't installed the SuSE 10. Would do it, but stopped due to the message. I cannot use SAX then.

Understand that I commented on what "FX Fraipoint" said that he did, not what you should do. I believe that you need to select a vga=xxx or normal display as it appears your video card is not correctly identified or is not supported by the live disk. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

* Erik Jakobsen [10-21-05 09:54]:

After a while the LiveDVD worked ok, and I could play with it.

The same is not the case using the installDVD.

did you try to do a 'text' mode install? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

If that's the case, you have merely side-stepped the problem rather than correcting it. "out of range" would indicate an incorrect scan rate, vertical or horizontal. Obtain the correct frequencies for your monitor (from windoz install disk or off mfgr's web site) and edit/insert correct values into /etc/X11/[XF86Config or xorg.conf] with your favorite editor or sax/sax2 in a runlevel < 5.

Obviously, this problem appears when you boot with the install CD /DVD BEFORE hardware detection. In my last three SuSe install, I was stuck on install with this irritating "monitor out of range" error message. If you add these vga=something parameters on install, you are not "sidestepping the problem", as you put it, but rather allowing the install routine to continue. In the cases I referred to, video card and ssmonitor were correctly detected by the later phase of the install procedure. I continue to say that this should not be, as it poses an unsurmountable problem for a newbie installing Linux for the first time: to be presented with a black screen and a little nicely moving window telling you "monitor out of range" is hardly the way to persuade new converts that Linux is as easy to install as Windows. Why not force yast to use more conservative monitor definitions to make sure the installation prioceeds as planned, and rectify later after the hardware has been identified? FX