M.B. Peters wrote:
BandiPat schreef:
On Monday 05 June 2006 02:05, Giel Peters wrote:
Hi,
I have bougth SUSE Linux 10.1.
When I try to install SUSE 10.1 it is not getting any further than
the point to choose a (installation) language (the requester does not
popup) The probing of the mouse works and the clock is spinning for
about 45 seconds then the system freezes.
Only a hard reset wil bring it back to live.
I have two IDE harddrive's and two SATA harddrive's in the system (a
K7N2 motherboard from MSI with a NVIDIA nForce 2 chipset)
If i disconnect the SATA drives SUSE 10.1 installs without any
problems. When I later connect the cables again SUSE 10.1 again
freezes during the boot proces.
I have reinstalled SUSE 9.3 (bougth version) SUSE 9.3 does not have
this problem.
somebody suggestions?
regards,
Giel Peters
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Giel,
There are a number of things that you might look at here. First of
all, 10.1 is a bit more hardware savy than 9.3 was, so it may be
looking at things 9.3 doesn't. Secondly, have you checked for a new
BIOS file from MSI? That might fix some things as well. I'm running
the nForce2 as well, but with a little less hard drives than you
without problems under 10.1. I remember early on there were problems
with Seagate SATA drives over 160GB, could that be affecting you?
Have you tried disconnecting just one, rather than both? Are you
trying to run RAID? Have you tried booting with ACPI turned off at
the loader screen?
Lots of things for you to check. You might also want to check the
searchable mail archives for the SUSE english list for similar
questions. Also, the suse-e mail list you hear many talking about
here might have more answers for you, once you narrow down many of
the above questions.
regards,
Lee
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Thanks for the suggestions Lee,
I updated my bios (7.4 to 7.8) but I'm sorry to say, no result.
I have tried all the 4 different install modes ( "installation",
"installation -- ACPI disabled",
"installation -- local APIC disabled and "installation -- safe settings")
All off them with the same result, the grafic installer screen pops
up, the mouse is correctly probed (I can move him around),
and by each install mode the same result, after about 45 seconds the
system freezes, only a hard reset can bring it back to live.
If I install with the SATA drives disconnected and later on connect
the SATA drives again, SUSE 10.1 starts to the point
where the firewall is activated, then the system freeses (always on
the same point!)
My harddrives are all from Maxtor (2 sata, each 120Gb, 2 IDE one of
28GB and one of 18GB) I bougth the system with
only the 2 sata drives. In that time (2003) I could not install LINUX
on sata so I bougth the two IDE drives so I could
install LINUX ( SUSE ). I allways had to switch in the BIOS to choose
between starting from IDE or SCSI.
thanks again, I keep on looking,
regards,
Giel
I had this problem with 9.3, on large drives (200-300gb) both IDE and
SATA, would not boot to even install SuSE. To get around this issue I
formated them to smaller sizes, in your case perhaps divide the 120 gb
into two 60gb partitions, or whatever works for you. I do have a 100gb
SATA partition working with 9.3. Not sure why this is the case, but this
worked for me.
I believe you will find more answers to your questions on the
[email protected] mailing list. Many more watch that list for these
types of questions.
Hope this helps.
Jim F
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