> Replaced the CD Rom with a Known Good CD Burner. The CDRom found a new home > in a windows 2000 server, and is operating fine. Before I swapped it, it > booted from a Windows XP Install CD, well. The SuSE CD found it's way into > the CD Burner, same dilemma.
Perhaps the CD is faulty? Do you have another SuSE or Linux machine available? There are media md5 sums in my susegrep-data packages, but the md5 for 9.1 cd1 is cae3c4422f94a6bc97b35976ef0b760f Please check that cd first. > When I get home from work, I'll run all the hardware components past the HCL > list for SuSE 9.1 and see if there's any known issues with anything. Leave that for later, the components look pretty standard to me. Rex already came up with some excellent ideas. apic/irq trouble looks like a likely cadidate to me too. Select the "safe" option from the initial boot menu, this turns off all the fancy stuff like apic. But check the hardware and reset the bios to defaults first. Select "no PnP OS" for Linux; you should leave all DMA + IRQ settings on "auto" if you only have PCI cards. You could try not to allocate IRQs to some on-board devices (graphics card, parallel port, ...) if the bios allows it and see if it makes a difference. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
