Clayton schrieb:
The SUSE installer worked OK, but when the comptuer did it's initial
reboot during the install, we only got a black screen immediately
after the normal Grub menu. Unplugged the data cables from the SATA
drives and tried again. This time it worked, and SUSE was able to
boot and finish installing.
Try the kernel parameter edd=off and report back.
Tried it... went from 100% failure to intermittent failure on boot.
Then your problem is clear. You have a BIOS bug. I hacked on the edd
stuff a while ago and if disabling it makes your machine boot, the only
thing that can help you is a BIOS update (in your case mainboard and
sata controller BIOS). Explanation: The EDD code calls into the BIOS
before the kernel enters protected mode, so if that call hangs, your
machine will not boot.
Disabled SATA, and that seems to clear up the rest of the boot
problem... for Linux. Now of course with SATA disabled, we can't boot
back to Windows without an extra step in the BIOS to re-enable SATA.
Funny since all the other machines I installed SUSE on with SATA work
fine. Granted this is an old motherboard with an early SATA controller...
Hm, is your computer by any chance manufactured by Fujitsu-Siemens?
Did I understand correctly that you can boot into Linux with SATA
enabled and edd=off? If not, can you find a pattern when Linux with SATA
works, like only the first time after switching on the machine, or only
if no CD/DVD was in any drive or something like that?
Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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