Suse 10.1 freezed

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, C M Reinehr wrote:
> Vu,
>
> On Wednesday 17 January 2007 09:12, Vu Pham wrote:
>> My Suse 10.1 stops working. It boots into the blue GUI screen and hangs
>> right there. The login dialog never shows up.
>> Rebooting into safe-mode does not help either.
>>
>> My plan is to have Suse 10.2 to update it but I don't have those CD/DVDs
>> here.
>>
>> Any idea how I can fix this problem ?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Vu
>
> Can you be a little more specific? Did it first freeze and then you were
> unable to re-boot, or did you discover that it would not boot after powering
> down and then trying to boot?
>
> Is the blank screen appearing before or after the GRUB boot menu? (Are you
> using GRUB?). If before the GRUB boot menu then it sounds as if your boot
> track is corrupted or incorrectly written. If after the GRUB menu then it
> sounds like a kernel problem.

In SuSE, the blue screen is both the GRUB menu & the bootup menu.  My 
guess is that the system is kernel panicing, but SuSE's craptacular bootup 
frambuffer is masking all of that.

Vu, you should be able to disable the graphic bootup crap by hitting ESC 
at the GRUB screen, and then editing the kernel entry to remove the 
vga=blah and replacing it with vga=normal.  That should at least show you 
what is going wrong.

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