Problem installing Suse

apokryphos · 08-28-2004, 11:29 AM

The installation itself seems to go pretty fine and dandy, but after trying to boot from disk -- after the whole installation etc... about 15+ rows of "10011110110101 etc... " come up, and we're left with no options. Neither do we know what caused the problem. SuSe seems to detect all our hardware, so really have no idea what the problem might be. Anyone know why this is hapening?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit: This part is actually no longer a problem.

bruno buys · 08-28-2004, 12:50 PM

This is due to some grub weirdness. I guess its related to differences between how the bios and grub sees the disk geometry.
If you have another linux or win computer at hand, download and install smart boot manager, build a boot floppy, and boot the machine with it. Then you can fix your boot.

About smart boot manager:
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html

Download installers:
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/3.7

apokryphos · 08-28-2004, 02:54 PM

Mysteriously, (and I have absolutely no clue how this happened), but after around the 5/6 type of rebooting, it opened up, and I did the rest of the configuration settings for SuSE.

Anyhow, my happiness was brought to a quick halt

by discovering that it seems to have not recognized the graphics card or something like that; when trying to go into GUI, the monitor complains that it's not supported. I thought SuSE would at least have the drivers for a GForce4 Graphics card, but I guess not.

Where should I go from here?

bruno buys · 08-28-2004, 04:22 PM

Are you logged as root? Try to log as root and then type startx in the prompt.

apokryphos · 08-28-2004, 04:49 PM

Tried it. Didn't change anything.

Still says, "video mode not available".