Re: [SuSE Linux] YaST locks up on install
John Constable wrote:
Hi all,
a plea for help here from a newbie!
I've got 6.1 (and have had 5.3 running in the past), and I have done a fresh install. The problem is, every time I do the install, it gets as far as copying the files, starting the newly installed system, and then YaST fires up to configure things, but locks, and that's all I can get it to do...
In cases like this the first (and probably best) guess is that there might be hardware related problems. Check your ide cable. In case it's longer than 40 cm, get a shorter one. Check your memory. In case you have different units, remove some until you only have equal units. Try again. Henning -- H. Henning Vossieck - hhv@hhv.de - <A HREF="http://hhv.de/"><A HREF="http://hhv.de/</A">http://hhv.de/</A</A>> SuSE Linux 6.0+ Kernel 2.3.4-109 glibc 2.1.1 egcs 1.1.2 -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>
Hi, thanks, but I don't think this is the problem. NT workstation runs fine (and has for some time) on this setup, as did suse 5.3. I'm probably going to go with compiling a new kernel as Martijn suggested in an earlier post, unless SuSE support get back to me and suggest something else. cheers John On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:51:07 +0200, you wrote:
John Constable wrote:
Hi all,
a plea for help here from a newbie!
I've got 6.1 (and have had 5.3 running in the past), and I have done a fresh install. The problem is, every time I do the install, it gets as far as copying the files, starting the newly installed system, and then YaST fires up to configure things, but locks, and that's all I can get it to do...
In cases like this the first (and probably best) guess is that there might be hardware related problems.
Check your ide cable. In case it's longer than 40 cm, get a shorter one.
Check your memory. In case you have different units, remove some until you only have equal units.
Try again.
Henning -- H. Henning Vossieck - hhv@hhv.de - <A HREF="http://hhv.de/"><A HREF="http://hhv.de/</A">http://hhv.de/</A</A>> SuSE Linux 6.0+ Kernel 2.3.4-109 glibc 2.1.1 egcs 1.1.2
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On Wed, 02 Jun 1999, John Constable wrote:
Hi,
thanks, but I don't think this is the problem. NT workstation runs fine (and has for some time) on this setup, as did suse 5.3. I'm probably going to go with compiling a new kernel as Martijn suggested in an earlier post, unless SuSE support get back to me and suggest something else.
It's something else. But I don't know what. I used to have this problem on certain machines. I think one of them was a Gateway -- that usually can explain just about everything...
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:51:07 +0200, you wrote:
John Constable wrote:
Hi all,
a plea for help here from a newbie!
I've got 6.1 (and have had 5.3 running in the past), and I have done a fresh install. The problem is, every time I do the install, it gets as far as copying the files, starting the newly installed system, and then YaST fires up to configure things, but locks, and that's all I can get it to do...
In cases like this the first (and probably best) guess is that there might be hardware related problems.
Check your ide cable. In case it's longer than 40 cm, get a shorter one.
Check your memory. In case you have different units, remove some until you only have equal units.
Try again.
Henning -- H. Henning Vossieck - hhv@hhv.de - <A HREF="http://hhv.de/"><A HREF="http://hhv.de/</A">http://hhv.de/</A</A>> SuSE Linux 6.0+ Kernel 2.3.4-109 glibc 2.1.1 egcs 1.1.2
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On Wed, Jun 02, John Constable wrote:
Hi,
thanks, but I don't think this is the problem. NT workstation runs fine (and has for some time) on this setup, as did suse 5.3. I'm
This means nothing. The new kernels have much more problems, if your IDE system is not Ok, then NT or older Linux kernels have. It is very critical if the IDE cable is a little to long as the standard allows, or is not from the necessary qualitiy. Thorsten
probably going to go with compiling a new kernel as Martijn suggested in an earlier post, unless SuSE support get back to me and suggest something else.
cheers
John
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:51:07 +0200, you wrote:
John Constable wrote:
Hi all,
a plea for help here from a newbie!
I've got 6.1 (and have had 5.3 running in the past), and I have done a fresh install. The problem is, every time I do the install, it gets as far as copying the files, starting the newly installed system, and then YaST fires up to configure things, but locks, and that's all I can get it to do...
In cases like this the first (and probably best) guess is that there might be hardware related problems.
Check your ide cable. In case it's longer than 40 cm, get a shorter one.
Check your memory. In case you have different units, remove some until you only have equal units.
Try again.
Henning -- H. Henning Vossieck - hhv@hhv.de - <A HREF="http://hhv.de/"><A HREF="http://hhv.de/</A">http://hhv.de/</A</A>> SuSE Linux 6.0+ Kernel 2.3.4-109 glibc 2.1.1 egcs 1.1.2
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Hi, On Thu, Jun 03, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Wed, Jun 02, John Constable wrote:
thanks, but I don't think this is the problem. NT workstation runs fine (and has for some time) on this setup, as did suse 5.3. I'm
This means nothing. The new kernels have much more problems, if your IDE system is not Ok, then NT or older Linux kernels have. It is very critical if the IDE cable is a little to long as the standard allows, or is not from the necessary qualitiy.
While I agree in general, I do not think that's the problem in this case (we now even don't activate DMA on IDE drives by default in order to stay on the safe side). But with the current information it's almost impossible to help. Are there any kernel messages on other consoles? Is it possible at all to switch consoles? One thing you could try: Install the new system with the old bootdisk from 5.3 (you only need to give the LILO parameter "ramdisk_size=20480", as the installation system has grown). You might get some errors due to not matching modules, but it shouldn't do any harm. This way we could find additional information where the problem is.
Thorsten
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John Constable wrote:
Hi all,
a plea for help here from a newbie!
I've got 6.1 (and have had 5.3 running in the past), and I have done a fresh install. The problem is, every time I do the install, it gets as far as copying the files, starting the newly installed system, and then YaST fires up to configure things, but locks, and that's all I can get it to do...
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