Suse 11 black screen. No response on systems.

[Private_Ops]

My teacher had our junior class install Suse 11 on all the systems in the lab.

Seems he's given us (the Seniors) the task of fixing what they screwed up or couldn't get working. Problem is, on a few of the systems you can only boot into failsafe mode.

We've yet to figure out why and not really sure where to look for errors since none of us (I use Ubuntu personally) are very familier with Suse and he swears by it.

The systems will boot, bring you to grub and boot normal by befault but, it stops there. After the grub menu disappears it's like the whole system just stops. Suse 10.3 worked fine (as far as booting) on these systems so apparently he can't even figure it out.


Anyone got an idea? I'm quite frankly stumped with this and I'm the only other prominent linux user. Like I said though, I'm not familier with Suse, or any redhat distro for that matter.

[Vince4Amy]

Have you simply tried a reinstall?

[Private_Ops]

Have you simply tried a reinstall?

Yup. Goes back to doing the exact thing. I'm beginning to think Suse is just flawed. I installed on a different system (most of these systems have the exact same hardware) and it is locking up at the login menu (it's the system I'm typing from now).

Works no problem in failsafe though.

[Vince4Amy]

I'm beginning to think Suse is just flawed

Before saying things like that is the install media anygood? I have no problems at all with OpenSUSE.

most of these systems have the exact same hardware

Haven't you considered this may just be a piece of incompatible hardware?

[Antman]

You haven't mentioned the type of hardware your lab is running:confused:

Also, have you checked to make sure the downloaded iso and media are good (sha1sum or md5sum)?
Did you burn the media at the slowest speed?

Are you installing via the LiveCD or DVD? Version 10.3 kinda burnt me on using the LiveCD as it was buggy on my hardware, so when I install openSUSE 11 I always use the DVD instead.

[Private_Ops]

Most systems consist of MSI boards with VIA chipsets, Athlon 64 3400+, 512MB RAM, ATI 9550 (or Geforce MX440), and 80GB hard drives.


Not sure about the disks because some systems work fine and had the disk used on them.

[Vince4Amy]

Have you tried new Discs anyway?