[ale] Linux wont boot

[Chuck Payne]

I would recommend you send this to the openSUSE mailing, you will need
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the [ALE].

One thing to rule openSUSE, I would down load one of the live disk and
try it. 12.1 is the lastest.

Chuck

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Cornelis van Dijk <cor.angela0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> (I send this message yesterday, but somehow it was not posted.)
>
> Hello alers,
>
> This is a continuation of the saga from two weeks ago when I had a
> dead harddrive. I put in a new one, which got a clean bill of health
> from several diagnostics. Even so,  I could not get suse  11.2 or even
> XP to boot.  In desperation I went to HL computer on West Park Place
> here near Mountain Park. I don't know what they did, but they got XP
> in there and booting (they wont deal with Linux they said). According
> to them the BIOS was blocked, whatever that means ( I did not speak to
> the guy who did the actual work). When asked, they said that they did
> not reflash the BIOS.
>
> Starting from there I tried to put suse 11.2 in there. The thing (HP
> Pavilion laptop) seems to go through the motions for 45 minutes, then
> advertises a reboot and dies! Tried again and now it comes up but does
> not recognize my name or password.  Tried a repair session to end up
> with an enormous amount of error messages.
>
> Faulty installation media? But I had used these same disks several
> times on regular PC's without a problem, and why would my XP
> installation disk have the same problem. (Note that the HL guys had
> their own XP installation disk).
>
> I am writing this from a regular PC which has suse 11.2 from the same
> installation disk!
>
> The  frustrating thing is that the installation seems to go smoothly
> up the point where the system goes into reboot for the finishing
> touches. Then a black screen forever, no disk activity or anything
> else, crl-alt-del does nothing. Only a hard reboot brings the system
> back up (XP will then boot, the last time I tried)
>
> I am stumped. This very same laptop had both XP and suse 8.2 in it for years.
> I would be much obliged for useful comments and suggestions.
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Cor van Dijk
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