SuSE boot problems

[Keith Powell <keith [at] nospamg4jvx.f9.co.uk>]

I'm having problems with booting SuSE. I have the full version of 6.3.

For a couple of weeks or so, it was working OK. Then I started to get
Kernel Panic error messages while it was booting and the process stopped.
These stoppages occurred at various points. The only way I could get over
this was be re-installing Linux. then it would boot several times before
these messages re-appeared. As where they happened was not consistent, I
can't give the actual points. I have lost count of the number of times I
have reinstalled the thing! I have installed it using YAST2 automatic and
guided, I have installed it using YAST1, and I have installed it from the
boot disk SuSE supplied. However I did it, the same thing happened - it
worked for a few times then went. When it was working,It always closed down
correctly.

A few days ago, things got worse. Now I install it and when I switch the
computer off and next come to run it, it won't boot. I get an error message:
Not found any [active partition] in HDD. Disk boot failure, insert system
disk and press enter. Doing this gives me LIL-, then nothing else. This
happens whichever of the methods I use to install SuSE. Linux is on its own
hard drive, on a caddy.

For the last couple of days, I have been using RedHat from the Linux Answers
magazine, installing it as the magazine instructions. This has installed
with no problems and, in spite of running it many times, it hasn't given me
any trouble.

My questions are,

1) Why has this started to happen with SuSE?
2) What can I do about it to prevent it happening and to run SuSE?

If anyone can give any advice, I would very much appreciate it, please. As I
am an elderly Linux novice, please keep any advice fairly basic!

Many thanks.

Keith

keith@keithg4jvx.f9.co.uk

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