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Old 06-05-2006, 06:33 AM   #1
garfield1228
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Suse boot fails


I have a HP dv5100 laptop with centrino duo proc and intel 3945abg wireless card... I tried loading Suse 10.1 ... it installed like a charm it detected all my hardware which no ther linux distro did till nw ... but on first boot as soon as i get into suse it boots and shutdowns automatically instantly ... so basically its not booting i just dont uunderstand why ... someone please help...
 
Old 06-05-2006, 08:56 AM   #2
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I have a HP dv5100 laptop with centrino duo proc and intel 3945abg wireless card... I tried loading Suse 10.1 ... it installed like a charm it detected all my hardware which no ther linux distro did till nw ... but on first boot as soon as i get into suse it boots and shutdowns automatically instantly ... so basically its not booting i just dont uunderstand why ... someone please help...
Hmmm... This is the only idea I have. Go into a live distribution, enter the terminal, cd to your SUSE partition, and enter in "vi /etc/inittab" (assuming you know how to do this). Tell us what "runlevel" is set in there.
 
  


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