Hi,

I inserted the SUSE installation disk 1 and reboot my computer. After that, the disk load and it show an error 'Invalid or corrupted kernel image' and after that show 'Boot:' and ask me to type something.

In sequence, its like this:

<... something written here ...>
Invalid or corrupted kernel image
Boot:<I can type something here>

So, whats wrong? Is it there a problem with the files or what?

Thanks

It sounds like your CD is damaged or didn't burn properly if you burned it yourself. If you burned the CDs yourself: did you check md5sums of the ISO images you downloaded and verify the CDs you burned?

I had a pretty bad experience today trying to install SUSE 10.0.
I did do a checksum of the cd's i burned.
Install of cd 1 went ok, but then the installer was unable to read the packages from cd 2.
The whole installation went down, or rather it was just finalized with an unusable system, for one thing it was impossible to log on because the installation finished without setting up passwords..

The second time I tried to just do a minimal install, there were just 2-3 packages to be installed from cd 2, similar for the rest.
I hoped i could get a minimal system going and do the rest from web repositories.
But no, when those insignificant packages from cd 2-5 could not be installed the installation was again just finalized with a useless system.

BRILLIANT design of an installer, one of my worst experiences ever trying to install linux

I DID get an error on one checksum, of cd 4, but that never got used anyway

I'll try to download cd 2 again but shouldn't it be ok when you get no errors on the checksum?

I got attracted to SUSE because they now have pptp in the network setup, or so I'm told..
--I use a VPN connection to the university server.
But this is useless, it's better to do it manually than this..

I'll say...

A few things to check:

- Your CD-ROM drive may be going bad. (Had that pop up during a Red Hat installation a while back.)

- You could have a memory problem that's gone undetected until now. Try running memtest off the installation CD and see if any errors crop up. It could take a while but it's worth the time if it points out a problem that otherwise would have you tearing your hair out.

- You didn't mention what flavor of installation you were attempting. Have you tried the "install with safe settings" (or whatever it's called; I forget just now)?

- Unplug all of your USB devices during the installation. I had a recent 10.0 installation hang a couple of times before it occurred to me to simplfy the hardware configuration as much as I could to avoid the possibility that some installation step might get confused by the hardware.

Good luck...

Are you installing from a CD/DVD read-only drive, or a CD-RW or DVD writer?

This may be a problem I had myself, except I never realized the underlying cause of the problem. I have a DVD reader and a CD-RW. I would often have package errors as you describe when installing from the CR-RW, but I always have clean installs if I use the DVD drive.

Then, a couple of weeks ago, I saw a post somewhere talking about errors installing from a CD-RW drive, and how the problem went away by installing from a plain-vanilla CD reader. Go figure...

Would this fit your situation?

Timothy.

Well, first I tried the DVD/CD reader and then I tried the CD burner.
Same result.
But I will burn the cd's again because it would be easier to have a system that could connect in a proper way to a pptp tunnel.
Currently I'm connecting through dhcp + authentication through web browser, it works but..
The images were downloaded with bittornado in win98se - something must have happened.
I have new images now, I'll check them and see.

sigh.. how do you check the md5sums of the iso? I spented few hrs download all 5 files, hope only 1 or 2 gone bad and not all..

Just find yourself an MD5SUM utility, and follow the instructions.

There are free ones available for both Linux and Windoze. Just google for "md5summer". That should turn up a selection for both OS's...

It's not necessarily the images.
There are a couple of other threads here dealing with the same problem.
Seems the installer has some problem with the essential task of getting the cd's mounted on some hardware setups...

I've gone back to Debian unstable, that's more stable than this will ever be

I checked all the iso and only the CD1 with problems, I think the whole installation will work fine. But, *sigh* I think I have to erase my Hard Disk and re-create 2 partitions (One for Win XP and the other for SUSE), I really want to retain my current Win XP (Drive C) and install SUSE into my other empty unused partition (Drive D). I ran the installation of SUSE but i can find no way to point it to install to Drive D (maybe because Drive D is already in NTFS system file), SUSE recongise the 2 drive as one and ask me to erase them.

Get boot disks for partition magic and make an ext2 partition or
download the Ultimate Boot CD and use Ranish partition manager.
When you have a linux partition suse will recognize it.
What about the partition program in the installer?

BTW I got the installation workin by burning a new cd 2.
Don't know what was the matter with the old one, the files seemed to be readable
and it mounted in win/lin