unable to boot into Suse ...

[Lakshmipathi]

Hi all,
In the morning we had a power failure ,now i tried to restart SUSE linux,
I started well then it displays the following and hangs.

hda: lost interrupt
hda: lost interrupt  
hda: lost interrupt  

// displays something   here

/dev/sda3 : device not found.
tty not found;exit to /bin/sh
$

Now my keyboard is not detected and so it's not working.

Any idea what's the problem ?
Problem lies with Harddisk or in softwares?
How to fix this issue?

[devils casper]

Have you installed any update recently? Append kernel line with noapic and check if it works.

[Lakshmipathi]

No updates made to the system.
Just we taken out RAM and cleaned it and placed it again.

I tried boot option, noapic
but it didn't work.

When i tried to login to " compaq diagonistic "
I received mesg like this , "
[code]
STOP : c000021a {fatal system error}
Session Manager initialize system process terminated unexpectedly with status of
0xC000003a
The system has been shutdown.
[\code]

[harner]

I'd open up the case again and make sure all the connectors inside the computer are securely tightened down and seated properly. You may have slightly bumped an IDE cable or something.

[Lakshmipathi]

no.we tried to that too...unplugged harddisk cable and then plugged it in ...
even after that no solution found

[gogalthorp]

Can you boot from a CD?

[Jonathan183]

No updates made to the system.
Just we taken out RAM and cleaned it and placed it again.

are you sure the RAM is replaced correctly ... have you tried RAM check during boot ... you can normally enable this in BIOS. Can you run memtest?

[Lakshmipathi]

Yes.checked seems like nothing wrong with RAM...I don't have SUSE bootable CD..
Is it ok, if i use distors other than suse ,like fedora or slackware live CD?

[athlon_crazy]

it's ok & the only choice for you to trigger the problem! is it device or SuSE prob!