On Tuesday 02 November 2004 01:41, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > 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.
Here's the bit that makes this whole ordeal a little bit spooky. The boot CD (SuSE CD#1) boots just fine in any number of different machines I have dotted around the place (including that Quad Processor beast you saw at the last installfest). It's just this Packard Bell thats having issues. IBM Netfinity Server - Perfect InterGraph Server - Perfect Compaq Deskpro P200 - Perfect P166 Homebuild - Perfect PIII 450 Homebuild - Perfect P4 2.8 Laptop - Perfect PIII700 Packard Bell - Fails every time. > > 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 is the boot menu I just dont get. Weird, isnt it... I see a likely candidate for perusal at the next installfest... > 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 Further news... Adjusting the bios from OPTIMAL, to ORIGINAL, to FAILSAFE produced no change, and certainly no happiness. Ohh, and while I'm thinking about it, the bootdisk idea had the same fate too. I personally think it doesnt like me. :) Andy George
