I’ve looked around the threads and can’t find this exact problem. I’m on a Compaq Presario F700 running openSUSE 11.3. During boot it hangs in three different places, all of which I can clear up by clicking the mouse buttons or moving my finger on the pad.
The first place it hangs is after:
doing fast boot
^^^creating device nodes with udev
The second place is
INIT version 2.88 booting
The third place is
copying static /dev content.
Like I said, I can get through all three and everything else works great, I just hate having to watch my machine boot to catch these. Any ideas?
or, did it suddenly begin doing that? after what changed?
how did you get to 11.3? (initial install on a fresh hard drive; or
upgrade from previous openSUSE [which/how]; dual boot with what
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OMG!! I also have a Compaq Presario F700. It is the greatest piece of trash ever perpetrated by HP on the human public. My wife said it would no longer boot after a year and a half of use. I sent it to HP. They charged me $356 for a new motherboard. After having it for 3 days, the battery went bad and so did the DVD! I am livid!
So I kept it plugged in and installed openSUSE 11.4 with a flash drive. Trying to get this thing to run is an exercise in futility. Nouveau does not work with this laptop. I had to boot up to init 3, run yast remove Nouveau, add nvidia repository, packman, etc. Once done with that, I then had to do the updates which took over an hour. By that time, it was 1 a.m. I also had to delete fbdev and associated files. Well, nvidia finally came through and now it will boot up OK. Now for the fun part, I installed Oracles Virtualbox. Got it running and copied over my 10 gig Windows .vdi file. Worked great and very fast. I can now run a vm and work on my dissertation. I was so happy at about 2 a.m. Went to bed.
I got up early and powered on the laptop. It just hung there. Bwwwwaaaaaaa haahahahahaha ooohhhhhbbbbbooooo hooooooohoooo…I finally got it to run on the third try. Hmm, will I get a battery and DVD Drive, or Buy a new ACER quad core and 4 gig for $399? I will continue working with this puppy for now. No more HP for me. They have really gone down hill, and are not Linux friendly.