On Monday 29 October 2001 12:43 am, you wrote:
On Sun, Oct 28, PCHintz wrote:
Just installed 7.3 and thought I would share my thoughts. SuSE in my opinion continues to be the "Mercedes Benz of Linux" as I saw them referred to in an article once. Each version is more polished and 7.3 seems to be no exception. However when it comes to ease of installation, I feel SuSE has taken a step back. Having seen other listings lately about trouble with the installation suggests I am not alone.
My install went as normal until the first reboot when the system locked up.
Resuming the install, the system again locked up when came time to configure
X. I then postponed configuring X until I had the install complete. The system crashed again at the end of the install. Attempting to use SaX2 to configure X afterwards crashed the system repeatedly. Replaced the Voodoo5 5500 with an ATI RADEON with the same result...repeated crashes. I
This sounds like the usual problems with a broken BIOS. Please add "disableapic" as boot option. Then the failsafe option should not longer be necessary.
Thorsten
That worked. Thanks PCHintz