Kevin Donnelly wrote:
On Thursday 16 December 2004 11:06 pm, Sunny wrote:
try to disable the VESA screen, and try to use basic VGA. Like, add boot param vga=0 and boot in runlevel 3 (or 1). then sax2 -l to configure in lowres mode.
The problem was that I couldn't get to a menu screen to allow me to do that :)
But I have in fact managed to get SUSE 9.2 up and running. Having got the system installed, but not configured, as per my previous post, I thought I might as well do a trawl of my other Linux distros to see which of them booted OK. Linspire - no, got a LILO error (but I'll check again tomorrow). Next up was a copy of Yoper on a Linux Magazine DVD. In with the CD, boot the PC, and ... say what? a SUSE graphical menu!!?! I selected 9.2 from that and completed the configuration, including the graphics setup. I've rebooted a couple of times, and it seems OK.
I'm wondering whether in fact it's somethig to do with the bootloader, but no, that can't be it. Mandrake, Knoppix and (I think) Linspire use LILO, but I think Fedora, like SUSE, uses GRUB.
Hmm - more investigations tomorrow. I've just found out the Yoper DVD wasn't in fact bootable, so perhaps its was something to do with taking the disc out. Strange.
9.2 is a strange beast, that's why I'm hanging back from upgrading my daughter's box. I had a heck of a time with the x86_64 install on my laptop and like you experienced, it suddenly worked for no reason I could fathom, on this x86 box, I eventually had to rsync the ATA100 120G drive over to a 160G ATA133 drive and do a fresh install without reformatting the partitions - it didn't like the ATA100 drive I'd been running 9.1 on, on the P-II/333 laptop, it did a fres non-graphical install, but X fired up later without problems. A friend with a new HD had to partially install XP, then he got 9.2 to install, wiped the HD and tried 9.2 with the same result, so eventually he had to partially install XP, install 9.2, wipe XP and he has a stable box. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====