My system can’t seem to boot. I’ve had to press the power button to turn it off, because anything I press on the keyboard doesn’t seem to have any response. And when I turn it back on, it goes to the screen that says in the bottom right hand corner “Press DEL key to run Setup” and “Press F11 key to run Boot Menu”, and after that, it goes to a black screen.
Any help would be appreciated!
I’m using OpenSUSE 10.0, on an MSI Wind notebook.
-motocola
Some more info here would be helpful.
First of all, do you perhaps mean openSuSE 11.0? SuSE 10.0 is quite old by now and openSuSE 11.0 will most likely have far better hardware support for something as new as an MSI Wind notebook.
Are you saying you have successfully installed SuSE on the notebook and the blank screen is what you get when booting the system for the first time?
Or is the blank screen what you get when starting the installer for SuSE? In that case, have you tried installing in manual text mode? When the screen goes blank wait for a short beep (or just a few seconds), press ESC then ENTER. You should get a “boot:” prompt. At the prompt type “linux” (without quotation) and press ENTER to start manual text mode installation.
The MSI Wind does not have an optival drive, right? So what do you use for an installation source?
Also make sure the BIOS is set to boot from your installation source.
No, I’m pretty sure I have openSuSE 10 SP1, it was already installed on the Wind when I bought it.
What happened was my screen froze at one point, and so I pressed the power button as a last resort to shut the computer down. Then when I turned it on again, I got the blank screen. I tried pressing “Esc” and “Enter” after a few seconds, but nothing happened.
My only idea for a solution is to connect an external CD drive and try to boot with the recovery disk that came with the Wind. Would this probably work?
-motocola
No, I’m pretty sure I have openSuSE 10 SP1, it was already installed on the Wind when I bought it.
Hmm… I have to say that sounds more like a SuSE Linux Enterprise release, they come with service packs, openSuSE doesn’t.
Also I wasn’t aware that the Wind shipped with SuSE Linux, interesting 
Anyway, booting from your recovery CD should offer the choice of a rescue mode, at least if it works in the same way as the openSuSE installation CD/DVD. From rescue mode you should be able to mount and examine your system, reinstall the boot loader and such things.
These things may require some detailed explaning, and if your system is SuSE Linux Enterprise, my experience is none. Most likely though I would guess it works in the very same way as openSuSE concerning these things.
Can’t make no promises, but booting your recovery CD should be the way to go here.
hm… is there a way to get my SUSE Linux Enterprise CD onto a usb key?
Hi
You could download individual CD’s from here
SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP1 Media Kit
Then have a look here
SuSE install
from USB drive
You may also want to look at upgrading to SP2?
SUSE
Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 SP2 eMedia Kit
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 11:32, 1 user, load average: 0.16, 0.13, 0.10
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12
oh, forgot to mention. the other computer i have to do all this is windows os. are there instructions for installing to usb for windows?
Hi
Have a look here;
Installation without
CD
Just replace the mini.iso name with the sled cd iso name. And don’t
forget to do an md5sum check on the download
Windows MD5 sum generator and
verifier
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.0 x86 Kernel 2.6.25.16-0.1-default
up 14:01, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.10, 0.13
GPU GeForce 6600 TE/6200 TE - Driver Version: 173.14.12