Greetings!

I experience great troubles trying to run SuSE 9.3 64 bit
on HP workstation xw9300.

The installation completed smoothly, but the kernel hangs at the first
boot after the installation on the following steps:

default mode: immediately, giving just a black screen with two small color lines
safe mode: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
XEN mode: NET: Registered protocol family 16

Reinstallation does not help.

The question is how I can force Linux to run?
I have rummaged through the Web and found several similar cases,
but no adequate solution was proposed. If the problem lays in a
incompatibility between HP xw9300 and Linux SuSE,
does it mean it is a lost case? I had to run SuSE 9.0-9.3 due to the
requirement of a specific software I need.

The system specification follows.

Thank in advance for the help.

Sergey Pogodin

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HP Workstation XW9300 Minitower

Configuration
CPU: Dual AMD Opteron 250 2.4 Hz
Chipset: NVIDIA nForce Professional with AMD-8131 HyperTransport PCI-X tunnel
Memory: 8GB (8 x HP 1GB DDR-400 ECC)
Disk: 2 x 250GB SATA Maxtor 7L250S0
Graphic controller: nVidia Quadro FX 1400 (128MB)
IDE interface: HP CK804 IDE, 2 x HP CK804 SATA
Ethernet controller: HP CK804 Ethernet Controller
Monitor: Samsung 730B 17" 8MS DVI
BIOS: of 25 Apr 2005
CD-ROM: LITE_ON COMBO DVD/CD-RW SOHC-4836K
USB controller: HP CK804 USB Controller
FireWire: HP TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
HUB 2 x Linux 2.6.11.4-20a-default ehci_hcd EHCI Host Controller

OS
Linux SuSE 9.3 64 bit, downloaded by ftp from SuSE

Boot
loader: grub
kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11.4-20a-bigsmp
Default options:
(hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x317 selinux=0 splash=silent console=tty0 resume=/dev/sda8 showopts
Failsafe options:
(hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=normal selinux=0 noresume showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off barrier=off iommu=noforce 3

Have you tried to install Suse 10.0 (since your hardware is most up to date)?

Not yet. The problem is I _have_ to use 9.3 - 9.0 SuSE, this is the requirement of a software I am planning to run. I have never suspected I will have hardware problems with Linux and I am highly disappointed...

It is possible to solve this problem by using the lastest kernel at:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mantel/kernel-of-the-day

Thank you, I will try.
By the way, what defines the OS version? Can I use SuSU 9.3 with a kernel from another OS version and possibly some packages from yet another version? I am new in the Linux field and this question confuses me...

If you have used another unix-like OS, there is no big difference.

It seems I have narrowed the problem slightly. After installing/booting the system with different options I have found that if I either install or boot without acpi=off options, the kernel simply crashes with a message
"<0> Kernel panic - not syncing. Attempting to kill init!"
after a page of illegible numbers.

On the other hand, if I include acpi=off either at installation or as a boot options, then kernel cannot find the PCI hardware:
"ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050211
ACPI: Interpreter disabled
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)"

I am equally not satisfied with any of these results...

You may your question on this forum:

http://forums.novell.com/group/opens...@article@first

the forum admins are suse employees.

To close the theme. I have downloaded SuSE OSS 10.0 from www.opensuse.org, installed it - it did work.
Without graphic, however, sax2 freezed. I have run #sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-1.0-7676-pkg2.run; #sax2 -m 0=nvidia; set 800x600 with 8 colours (!), generic VESA(I have SyncMaster 730b that is not on the list), then increased it gradually to more acceptable values.
Still my network connection switches on and off as it wishes...

The bottom line is I will not install Linux on my home machine - it just does not worth the troubles.

Then this thread is closed. The identical one in Software is left open. Please do not double post.