Re: Suse 8.2 installation problems

From: Robert Hodges (no.spam_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 08/08/03 

Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 13:03:44 GMT

John Kelly <jtklelly@adephia.net> wrote in
news:mrEYa.2080$2Y6.703806@news2.news.adelphia.net:

> Did you try vga=vesa?
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> John
>
>
> Robert Hodges wrote:
>> "davidl" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in
>> news:gfzYa.9553$5e.554207@twister.socal.rr.com:
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John,

sure did, I tried so many options and combinations of options I wound up
making a matrix just to keep myself from doing repeats :)

With the work-around I finally found, I don't think it was the kernel
options that were the problem. I think it's the menu system they provide
to launch/boot the kernel on my hardware. I did a binary dump of the
menu/launcher and there's a lot of code in there that's doing pre-checks
to determine what options to pass to the kernel on start (based on my
review of the text messages in there, I did not dissassemble it to look
at the machine code). My suspicion (not a proof by any means) is that
pre-check code is somehow locking up the machine. I base that purely on
the fact I can use the 8.0 launcher and boot the 8.2 kernel and all is
well and the install works perfectly.

PS: when I say menu/launcher, I'm talking about the Suse app that
displays the options for what to do (boot harddisk, installation, etc)
that then launches the kernel

My thanks though for the suggestion,

Bob H