noobSUSE 10.1 retail installation problem

**Idle_Handz** · 12-20-2006

Hello, I am a complete noob and have run into a problem with my installation of SUSE 10.1. My situation is that I want to dual boot linux and windows xp on my machine. This may seem probably like a repeated thread but maybe not. I used the dvd that came with the retail box to install and the installation went smooth(i hope) until the machine restarted. Following the restart, after the POST, the screen goes black and just hangs. I restart and GRUB(i think) appears telling me to select an option. I select SUSE 10.1 and the same thing happens, the screen goes blank and the system hangs. I attempt to select the failsafe boot and then I notice some of these errors:
Loading Processor
Loading thermal
FATAL: Error inserting thermal(/lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko): No Such Device
FATAL: Error inserting fan (/lib/modules/2.6.16.13-4-smp/kernel/drivers/acpi/thermal.ko) : No such device
Loading reiserfs
Waiting for device /dev/sda6 to appear:................not found
--exiting to /bin/sh

Sorry for the long post, but I am unable to post screen shots. I am a complete noob and am at a loss at what to do. I would appreciate any help and advice.

My specs are:
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe mobo
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ cpu
2GB PC2-6400 Corsair XMS RAM
Seagate 500GB SATA
Samsung SH-S162 DVD-Writer
Pioneer DVR-710 DVD-writer
eVGA 7600GT graphics card (two of them with sli bridge)

Thank you for any help and my apologies for long post.

**AlexK** · 12-20-2006

ok, how did you setup the partitioning scheme for the dual boot? If possible grab a livecd such as Knoppix and post the results from these two commands:

Code:

fdisk -l  <--- that is lowercase L
cat /boot/grub/menu.lst  <--- that is again a lowercase L

if it returns an error, run the command as root i.e. execute "su -" (without quotes).

**Idle_Handz** · 12-20-2006

The output from the fdisk -1 command is: //long output typing as best i can//
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units= cylinders of 16065 * 512=8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 30890 248123893+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 30891 60801 240260107+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 30891 31152 2104483+ 82 Linux swam/ Solaris
/dev/sda6 31153 33763 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 33764 60801 217182703+ 83 Linux

As for the cat/boot/grub/menu.lst the output is: no such file or directory

I'd like to note that just getting knoppix to boot was a struggle. I had to pass the acpi=off and failsafe paramaters in order for it to actually start! That and my mouse acted crazy and was running applications left and right, I had to ctrl alt f2 to go to the text command prompt. //lightbulb// perhaps acpi or apic are possible culprits in this whole mess? if so, how shall i approach?

Thank You

**devils casper** · 12-20-2006

in GRUB screen, select SuSe title and type acpi=off apm=off. press Enter key to boot up. check if SuSe boots up properly.

Casper

**Idle_Handz** · 12-20-2006

I believe noapic got me through. I am going erase the partition from within the windows partition and clear the mbr and try the installation with the noapic parameter- seems i screwed up when failsafe loaded up without the gui and i didnt not specify a root username and pw. Thanks for the help fellas, it was very helpful. If I run into more problems, i hope i wont be bugging too much when i come back and post.

**devils casper** · 12-20-2006

you could add word noapic in menu.lst file. no need to install SuSe for this reason only.

Originally Posted by Idle_Handz

seems i screwed up when failsafe loaded up without the gui and i didnt not specify a root username and pw

are you able to log in as normal user? did you assign 'root' password during installation?

Casper

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