On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 22:33:46 +0000, Kevin Donnelly
On Thursday 16 December 2004 7:14 pm, Vince Littler wrote:
Yes, this sort of thing is familiar to me. It hangs as described in the splash screen _before_ attempting to load the kernel, so the kernel is nothing to do with it. I have the problem on most versions with Adaptec SCSI. The workaround is to hold down a shift key while booting, starting just before leaving BIOS. IIRC correctly you then choose a driver. After this, normally the CD boot works, and the installed sytem boots normally.
I thought you'd cracked it, Vince, but not quite. Holding down the shift key pops me into an options screen, from where I typed "linux" at the boot prompt to do an install. Everything starts up, but coughs when it comes to "Starting YaST". After a failed attempt to do a graphical YaST, it puts me into the ncurses one. I did the install fine from there, but of course then there is a reboot before you get to the graphics setup with SaX, and at the reboot ... yes, you get the "Welcome" splash screen again, and there it hangs. So it is obviously something that SUSE doesn't like about the graphics subsystem on this PC, which seems to be an onboard 3dfx, with no AGP slot to choose anything else.
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. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85