Hello: I am having difficulty upgrading my openSuSE 10.1 installation to openSuSE 10.2. In fact, my difficult arises from the fact that I cannot reliably boot into the installation program.
Background: (1) I have a Tyan K8HM 3892S motherboard and two dual-core Opterons. (2) I installed the latest BIOS (1.05). I tried a number of BIOS settings but they are currently set to "optimal defaults". (3) openSuSE 10.1 runs without any known problems. Originally I had the double realtime clock issue but a previous BIOS update fixed that. (4) I'm using the openSuSE 10.2 install DVD. I checked the MD5 and it matched. I have also burned a number of DVDs, even using different programs and the behavior is consistent. Issue: (1) The DVD starts to boot. In fact I can get to the "main screen" where I can select to "Boot from the Hard Drive", "Install", ... (2) When I select install to start the upgrade, usually the system hangs. (3) I installed using text mode and the initcall_debug kernel option and I can see progress up until the following: Calling initcall 0xffffffff80317987: pci_init +0x0/0x2b() What I find weird is that sometimes the system will get into the install program, but the vast majority of the time it will not. So it's intermittent. I haven't been able to identify any pattern that I can use to predict whether it'll work on any given boot sequence. Does anyone have any suggestions? This isn't a crisis since I have 10.1 working well, it's just that I really wanted to upgrade to 10.2. Of course I'm willing to provide additional information to the best of my ability. I'm somewhat competent, but must admit that I'm a little out of my comfort zone. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Brian Schang -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
