Hello everyone,

I hope someone could help me here.
I just upgraded Suse 10.1 to 10.2 everything went fine the upgarde completed with no errors.

Next the system requires reboot to complete install so I did it. At boot up the system does memory and peripherals check and then just freezes. i thought maybe it was trying to boot from the CD so i removed that option for the BIOS made sure is only looking at the HD still nothing, so i wet back in and put back to the CD-ROM and put the Suse intall DVD, nothing. After trying this back and forth for about an hour i gave up and shut down the machine.

After a few hours i decided to look into it again. the settings in the BIOS were to boot from CD-ROM and the CD was in tehre suddenly the system booted and asked me if i wanted to run from HD or Install obviously i put HD. THen the system finished the installation and came up with no prob I tested a few apps and everyhting was working fine. So i figure everything is good. So i Rebooted, and now again I am in the same problem

Any ideas anybody?? Please help me.

Thank you

It's a possibility that your hard drive is getting ready to take a dump. Run some diags on it.

I don't think that is possible imean my HD is only about 1 year old it should still have a few years in it. And again is happening after i shutdown it doesn't want to reboot.

If it was the HD then i would assume that booting from the CD would be done with no prob. but i cant boot from anywhere and this just started happening right after i upgraded.

But since you mention it, cuold you let me know how i can run some diag on it?? not too familiar with Suse. trying to learn

Better do a clean installation.

Ahhh......


Found the reason. and thanks guys for answering, especially thanks cueman, you got me thinking something i don't usually do

The prob was a faulty fan!!!! my HDD's were overheating that is why after shutdown they would not want to boot up until they cool off.

But thanks and good thing this happened now i was able to catch on time before something worse occurred

Check this out:

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm#DFT

There is an iso cd image you can download. I use this IBM drive fitness test on a lot of drives. It will definitely let you know if there is a problem. A one year old drive means little really, they can fail at any time.

I don't know about the overheating issue, I would think it would shut down or lock up when it got hot, not just on a reboot. I kind of doubt that is the culprit. Give those diags a try.

EDIT: I just downloaded that CD ISO image. It works great, just boot from your CD-ROM and the rest is pretty self explanatory.

I will give it a try and let you know if i find something, thank you

Seagate also has disk diagnosis software.

Try suse 10.3 alpha 1, it is better. No problem of unrecognised password.

that means re-installing everything again.

Well i will see if i get a chance to do this later on right now i can reinstall have too much data in there.

But thanks.

chose minimum package to complete the installation fast, the use Yast to add packages later.