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Spartan4ever
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 Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2025 9:45 pm Post subject: New user needs help with SUSE 11.0 completing boot |
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I started to experience trouble with SUSE 11.0 completing its booting.
I have a dual boot system and when I select to use the SUSE OS it prompts me for my password. After entering my password my screen goes blank accept for the mouse arrow being visible.
I attempted to boot using the Failsafe selection and noticed the following messages appear:
ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4)
qc timeout (cmd 0xec)
Any help that can be provided is greatly appreciated.
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2025 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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| try adding "noapic" to the grub boot line.
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Spartan4ever
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| Posted: Sun Oct 26, 2025 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| Sorry for my lack of linux knowledge, but where/how exactly do I find the grub boot line?
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Spartan4ever
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No it is not a laptop, it's a HP Pavillion with an AMD Phenom 9550 quad-core processor.
The problem I am having is after I am prompted for root password and press enter my system appears to lock up and I cannot do anything accept perform a hard boot.
Is there anything I can do to possibly get a command line prompt during boot up that will allow me to edit this file?
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lynch
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At the OS boot selection screen there should be the words "Boot Options|".
That's the prompt; When the screen appears, make sure Opensuse is highlighted and type "noapic". Hit enter.
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Spartan4ever
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Thanks, I'll give that a try and let you know how I come out.
If by chance this doesn't correct my problem is there an easy way to uninstall SUSE? I still have the iso image on DVD that I downloaded from the SUSE site.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| uninstall = reformat drive
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| Spartan4ever wrote: | | If by chance this doesn't correct my problem is there an easy way to uninstall SUSE? I still have the iso image on DVD that I downloaded from the SUSE site. |
No need to uninstall it..... you could
1. Use the disk to repair installed system
or if that doesn't work
2. do an install "upgrade installed system"
and if that still doesn't work
3. do a fresh "new install", with your formating done during the install.
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Spartan4ever
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My menu.lst file in the grub directory is as follows:
# Modified by YaST2
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,5)/boot/message
###Don't change this comment - YaSt2 identifier:Original name:linux###
title openSUSE 11.0 - 2.6.25.5-1.1
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25.5-1.1 - pae root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-
SATA_Hitachi_HDS7210_GTE200P8GKM6HE-part6 resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent showopts vga=0x317
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25.5-1.1-pae
I added "noapic" at the end of the vga=0x317 statement, and then attempted to boot the system. When I typed in my root password the screen blinked displaying the OPENSUSE 11 screen before going completely blank with only the mouse arrow visible.
Did I include the "noapic" on the correct line?
Thanks.
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| Are you getting to the KDE/Gnome login screen? Sounds like you are to me, but I could be reading wrong. If so it could be a corrupted user profile.
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crouse
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| sounds like you are getting the system booted up, however it now sounds like your graphics xorg file could be corrupt. I believe you can use a text console ALT+F1 and login as root and run "sax2" to configure your graphics card....... at least that's how i remember it... been awhile since I used opensuse.
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| crouse wrote: | | sounds like you are getting the system booted up, however it now sounds like your graphics xorg file could be corrupt. I believe you can use a text console ALT+F1 and login as root and run "sax2" to configure your graphics card....... at least that's how i remember it... been awhile since I used opensuse. |
It does sound like the login screen, not the boot screen. But if you get the GUI login screen then X should be ok. Maybe it's a corrupted .kde profile?
Another thing: is this HP model's CPU 64-bit? What is the model number of the HP?
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Alternatively , you COULD change the boot line of grub as it comes up.... hitting ESC to cancel the automatic boot.... and then hitting "e" to edit the boot line ......... a much easier way imho to "test" different options...........some of which include........