Installation Problem

[smoke]

Today i downloaded SUSE-Linux-10.1-Remastered-DVD-x86_64.iso i began installation it start copying all the packets to the disk and asked for a reboot to continue installation and here is my problem after restarting my pc i press boot from hard drive and my pc freezes. Can someone help me on this plz.

AMD Athlon 64x2 4200, Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe, 1Gb DDR2 667, MSI Geforce 6800GT, 5 SATA Hard Drives (2x WD160Gb, 2x Seagate 80Gb, 1x WD 40Gb), 1 DVD-RW Pioneer 107D, DVD-ROM Pioneer 121

[bryansmith]

Does it give you some sort of error message? Some sort of irregular screen activity? HD activity?

Bryan

[smoke]

No error message, no hdd activity, numlock not working just a black screen

[muha]

seems like grub is not working alright.
Do you also have other distributions (windows or whatever) or data on those disks?
If you're booting, do you keep the dvd in the drive? What happens if you do? Normally it will also say something like: "boot from hard disk". Try that.

[smoke]

I do have windows XP installed on one drive (seagate 80gb)
all the other drives have data except the 40Gb which i formated it to install suse. Grub is loading correct i can boot to windows XP but when i try to boot suse the screen shows nothing and the pc freezes.

[oldcpu]

5 SATA Hard Drives (2x WD160Gb, 2x Seagate 80Gb, 1x WD 40Gb), 1 DVD-RW Pioneer 107D, DVD-ROM Pioneer 121

Are you certain it freezes?

Can you press <ALT><F1>, or <ALT><F3>, <ALT><F3>, <ALT><F4> (you may need to press <CTRL> in front of the <ALT>, my memory is slipping, and I'm having a senior moment). Theoretically this could bring up another screen, possibly with an error message providing a hint as to the problem.

SuSE can have difficult with SATA Hard drives, and my guess is they are causing the problem. Actually, I didn't know SuSE could handle 5xSATA drives. You could check your BIOS, and select "Legacy mode" if the SATA. You could also try booting with only the SATA drive that has SuSE installed. ... but those suggestions are based on an assumption (that could be wrong) that SATA is your problem. It could be something else. Hence getting an error messages is important.

[bryansmith]

Try CTRL-ALT-F1 - this should show you some input. Also, assuming you get to the command line, take a look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log (type less /var/log/Xorg.0.log) and see if anything funky comes up. This is all under the assumption that the problem is something to do with the X server.

Bryan