Re: openS. 10.2: New installation: Blank Screen after Grub!

On Sep 29, 6:29 am, "Tom" <n...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello group,
I just have installed openSuSE 10.2 on a box. Everythig went fine. I let the
installer install all availiable updates. It restarted several times during
the setup, since the installer had some kernel patches installed. KDE
started properly, everything fine!

Then I shut down, closed the box with some screws and pushed it 30cm back to
it's final place.
Then I fired it up, and..... right after the boot menu of grub the screen
stays black.. Only the cursor blinks in the top left corner.

I checked the hardware if some connector loosened during the small move.
Everything ok.

The funny thing is, that I now have the same effect, when booting with the
installation DVD, right afert hitting "install". Previous that was never a
problem!

I started some hardware tests, e.g. booting without HDD, without DVD,
changing RAM, etc. Nothing. Always the blank screen & blinking cursor
effekt.

Then I booted the machine with Ubuntu 6.02 and it started properly.

Now what is that?
Can anybody give me an advice on what to do?

Greetings
Tom

fwiw, i had a lot of trouble w/no video after install (3 times) w/9-
something when i changed the video res during install. Left it at
whatever it detected and it was happy.

.

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