On 12/18/06, Roger Oberholtzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 22:00 +0100, Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
> Hello community !
>
> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>
> > I have a Dell Dimension 8100 (P4, old nvidia card - nothing fancy) at
> > home on which I always run the current SUSE. I tried to install 10.2,
> > but did not get very far. I get the menu to install. No matter which
> > method I choose, the install stops directly after the initial box
> > showing that the kernel is loaded. The screen is blank, and I cannot get
> > to the other virtual terminals to see anything. I tested the DVD in
> > Yast, and it said the media was OK. Any other way I could see what is
> > failing?
>
> Did you try the rescue system, too ?
>
> If this fails, try the option
>
> pci=noacpi
>
> Years ago I had trouble while installing an older version of SuSE. At
> that time pci=noacpi solved my problem ...
>
> Memtest is also worth a try ...
I have tried this to no avail. I can do the memtest, and all is reported
as ok. But any other thing exhibits the same problem. Load the kernel
and then a blank screen. I have tried getting to the other virtual
terminals to see if it is just the screen driver that is the problem.
Nothing. I also tried moving the DVD drive to a different IDE connector
to see if it was some off primary/secondary master/slave thing. That
made no difference. So, perhaps it will have to stay at 10.1. I plan on
setting this up for the in-laws over Christmas and wanted to be rather
recent.
Have you updated to latest BIOS?
> Never give up !
I never do. Unless I do.
--
Roger Oberholtzer
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