Hi All
I am having this exact problem installing Enterprise Server 9 on a Fujitsu
Siemens machine with SATA disks.
I noticed in this email that one poster questions whether or not the machine is
an FS machine, can anyone tell me more about this. Is there a known problem?
Thanks
Brendan
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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 14:50:44 +0100
From: Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Cannot install SUSE 10.0 - only get a black screen
immediately after Grub
/> Then your problem is clear. You have a BIOS bug. /
Dang... Ok, that's something we can deal with.. have to go hunting on
the MSI site for a new BIOS and flash it. My brother can do that... I
hope :-)
/> 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. /
Interesting.. that's good to know...
/> Hm, is your computer by any chance manufactured by Fujitsu-Siemens? /
Nope. It's a "home built" system, assembled from various individual bits.
/> 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? /
I tried listing all the combinations we've tried... but I have ot check
again with my brother... just to be sire... so I'll try to follow up on
this later.
We do have a fairly repeatable pattern where Linux will boot initially
(without the edd=off param), but if we enable SATA at any point and boot
to Windows, then disable SATA and try to boot Linux it's dead, and
remains dead. only a reinstall seems to "resurrect" it again.
Using edd=off, and with SATA enabled, we were able to get it working,
but there were still intermittent boot problems - sometimes it will take
3 or 4 tries to get Linux to boot.
We will try a BIOS update, and I'll try to get a complete list of the
combinations we've tried and results...
C.
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