Dear all,

I installed SuSE 9.3 on my notebook. Right after finishing the installation and rebooting the machine I get an error:

Apr 30 04:05:26 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0 sector 0

Apr 30 04:05:41 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0 sector 0

Any ideas?

Regards, Carsten

/dev/fd0 is a floppy drive........are you trying to boot from a floppy disk??

Hi - I am getting exactly the same - no I installed from a DVD - everything (and I mean everything) was working fine till I powered off and restarted the machine for the first time. To be precise. I installed Suse 9.3 over Mandrtake 10.1, on an AMD Duron 1.2gig, 512meg, 80gighd, SonyDVD and floppy. Installation finished , web access used to download updates etc from Suse site, floppy used to xfer data into Evolution, DVD used to load Thunderbird. Romoved all media and powered down then restarted - got that error message - any help grovellingly appreciated !!!

Hi, I ran into the same problem with suse 9.3. Although the error message does not give a clue about it, at my machine this had to do with SUSE changing back the window/displaymanager to faulty settings. If that is the case you should edit /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and change DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm" to DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" (if you use kde). Also modify /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager DEFAULT_WM="twm" to DEFAULT_WM="kde".

I haven't found out why SUSE does this and am still experimenting with ways to prevent SUSE from changing it back (it does that every now and then). Hope this helps.

THanx fr that tip - I agree - bit hard to connect that solution to the error message !! Well done anyway and thanx again - I will now stop sulking and give it another bash - having two desktops makes U lazy !!