On Thu, 2004-12-16 at 07:34, Kevin Donnelly wrote:
Interesting issue here that I have never come across before. I have a friend's 2-3 year old Packard Bell PC on the operating table, with an NEC DVD drive as secondary master. He got so annoyed with Windows viruses that he has wanted to try Linux, and I volunteered to do an install.
However, if I put in the DVD *or* CD for *any* of SUSE 8.2/9.1/9.2 and boot up to start an install, I get the splash screen (the one with "Welcome" in different languages) and the install then halts. What should happen, of course, is that the menu screen (the one with "Boot from Hard Disk", "Istallation", etc) should pop up almost immediately, but this doesn't happen. (All these disks have been used for various home installs here, so I know there is nothing wrong with the disks themselves.)
Knoppix 3.7, Mandrake 10.1 Community, and Fedora Core 3 disks all boot to the installer, so there is obviously something odd about the SUSE disks generically. (In fact, this is the first time in 6 years of using SUSE that I have ever had a SUSE disk fail to boot on a machine!) Interestingly, Knoppix lists the DVD and CD-RW drives as sr0 and sr1, even though they are definitely IDE, so I can't rule out some Packard-Bell BIOS oddness (even though the BIOS settings look OK to me.)
Ideally, I would like to install SUSE for him, so does anyone have any suggestions on how I might persuade the recalcitrant installer to appear?
Try using the second CD and see if it will boot to that. There was a different boot kernel on the second CD IIRC. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989 SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please*