> Knowledge base on SuSE website suggested pressing and holding SHIFT while it > boots. This forced a TEXT ONLY menu, where I could see the NOACPI setting. > Choosing that, the installation proceeded as smoothly as the other PCs.
Hmm, so the problem is, you were unable to select the "failsafe" boot option because the system terminated itself before it got to the boot prompt? Bummer. Probably why they implemented the shift trick... Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
