I use SUSE on all my computers. SUSE has installed on all of them with no problem except for one. On this computer there is a problem with the motherboard and which hard disk decides to boot up first.
Go into the BIOS and look to see if you modify which IDE port can be booted. If you can change which IDE port can boot and you have more than one hard disk here in may lie the problem. As it is a new computer just use one hard disk to start with. Check that the hard disk you are using has a primary partition on it and it is active. Check in the BIOS that that it is set to boot up from the Hard disk IDE port first. Other hard disks can be added after the SUSE is up and running This should hopefully sort out the problem. Note SUSE 11 is a lot faster than 10.3 so it is worth waiting for the 11. John Eayrs On Monday 13 October 2008 22:47:54 Peter Salisbury wrote: > 2008/10/13 trotter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > > > I have built a new PC and I am trying to get suse 10.3 installed. > > > > The install process goes fine but on reboot I find grub has not been > > changed to "suse grub" ie the green splash and its boot options. > > > > I still see the syllable os installed grub which is the basic white > > writing on blue back ground. No entries have changed on syllable > > grub. > > > > I tried the suse 10.2 and 10.3 repair options but they cant find > > a valid linux partition! It did find the linux swap partition however. > > > > I am downloading sue 11.0 dvd but its going to take a few days to > > get the 4.29Gb dvd iso. > > > > The install picks up my old suse 10.3 update install so why doesnt > > the repair boot manager? > > Is there a problem with the 10.3 installer that messes something up? > > > > Advice and suggestions please > > > > Martin N > > Debian rather than Suse, but I had trouble with an upgrade involving > grub where I had the old grub installed in the MBR so it was picking > up my old menu.lst configuration instead of the new grub.cfg. I also > had trouble with the naming of drives changing which caused great > confusion. Could either of those be your problem? > > HTH, Peter -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
