Re: [SLE] SuSE 7.1 Install Failure
Opps, just to Rob. Here it is below. Rob - "boot the machine with the boot disk choose language etc.. yast2 comes up choose abort" No can do. Boot floppy loads initrd, then linux, in the process reports the following: scsi: 0 hosts scsi: detected total looks for the hardware, then asks for the modules floppy. As soon as you select O.K. the install jumps to a teal colored box saying "loading data into ramdisk 2210 kB" and runs to 100% and then immediately jumps to a black screen with white cursor blinking in the upper left hand corner. That it, all locked up, or a least no further install runs. System is based around an Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W SCSI II controller; virtually everything in the system is scsi based so with no recognition of the controller I'm virtually dead, not true, I AM dead. I tried an install on my IDE system at work this morning and it ran smooth as silk, so the problem lies with the hardware I'm sure on this system. Now what? Dave
Hi, I don't know if I can help but here goes.
Opps, just to Rob. Here it is below.
Rob -
"boot the machine with the boot disk choose language etc.. yast2 comes up choose abort"
No can do. Boot floppy loads initrd, then linux, in the process reports the following: scsi: 0 hosts scsi: detected total looks for the hardware, then asks for the modules floppy. As soon as you
select O.K. the install jumps to a teal colored box saying "loading data
into ramdisk 2210 kB" and runs to 100% and then immediately jumps to a black screen with white cursor blinking in the upper left hand corner. That it, all locked up, or a least no further install runs.
<snip> Thsi sounds a bit like a problem I had on a machine with less than the required 40MB RAM. So when YAST2 didn't set up my Xserver during the install and still switched to tty7 it looked like the machine had stopped with the same black screen and white cursor. I discovered that <ctrl>+<alt> F1 got me back to a console where the text version of YAST2 was waiting for a reply to a question. Once I'd got back to this screen the install went smoothly. Hope this helps, Mark
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David C. Johanson
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Mark Daglish