Hi
add the options acpi=off noapic to the line: kernel (hd?,?) /boot/vmlinuz.... of your /boot/grub/grub.conf (or /boot/grub/menue.lst as called by SuSE, depending from your distro)
This should looke like below:
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 acpi=off noapic
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