Re: [Sheflug] P II 350, 256MB ram, 8GB HDD, QDI legend MB installproblems with SUSE 9.1

[Peter Collier <pecb [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 11:06, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Chris
> 
> > I've just installed SUSE 9.1 on this box but when it gets to the
> > end of its
> > install and reboots all I get is a grub prompt.  I've tried
> > different
> > install options with no success.  The box worked fine with Suse 8.X
> > on it.
> > Any suggestions as to the next steps to get it working?
> 
> 
> Had this one a few times.  This is something to do with the 2.6 
> kernel that came in the box with SuSE 9.1.  The present fourth or 
> fifth update is the 2.6.5-7-111 kernel.
> 
> This is fine for those of us who can update and fix the kernel 
> problem but no good for those of us - like yourself - are stuck with 
> a hung installation.  Hopefully someone else can help you to fix your 
> Grub problems :)
> 
> Debian Sarge doesn't seem to suffer from this bug.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Richard
> 
Is it possible to boot off your SuSE cdrom and then pick boot installed
system. If so, then perhaps you'll be able to get to yast and download
the needed updates.

Peter C

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