Failing boot from DVD

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Hi,
I am having troubles installing opensuse on my laptop. I am worried it is because I messed up a bit.
I used to have dual boot with Ubuntu 12.4 and win7. Recently I tried to delete grub and restore normal boot with windows only, but I failed. Now I can’t boot either one of them. My laptop gets stuck at the initial motherboard screen, it gives out some text which I forgot to copy and then just stops.
When set to boot from CD drive (containing a DVD with opensuse), instead, it just stops at the motherboard screen. Bios commands also don’t seem to be working.

I made sure I checked:

  • the DVD I use for boot is working properly on other computers (it contains the official version of opensuse - 4,3 GB)
  • Ubuntu works if booted from USB
  • Opensuse does not install even if booted from USB
  • gparted works properly

Has anyone had the same issue? Do you reckon it is just a matter of compatibility or did I really mess up bad?

Thanks in advance,

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First step is to check that the checksum on the ISO matches the expected
checksum. If you downloaded via torrent, it should match, but check it
anyways just to be sure.

If you’re booting from a burned DVD, if you get to the point of being
able to do a media check, then do a media check. That’ll tell you if the
media’s good.

Jim

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openSUSE Forums Administrator
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DVD is fine, it works sweet on my other computer. I don’t think this is it.

/Edit on my main post the laptop I speak about is an HP 6730b

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On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:16:06 +0000, Ninxit wrote:

> DVD is fine, it works sweet on my other computer. I don’t think this is
> it.

Does it pass the media check on your other computer?

If it works on one machine and not on the other, that points to either
hardware or possibly some sort of weird data alignment issue on the media.

> /Edit on my main post the laptop I speak about is an HP 6730b

Does a LiveCD work on this system?

Jim

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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C

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Ninxit wrote:

>
> Hi,
> I am having troubles installing opensuse on my laptop. I am worried it
> is because I messed up a bit.
> I used to have dual boot with Ubuntu 12.4 and win7. Recently I tried to
> delete grub and restore normal boot with windows only, but I failed.
> Now I can’t boot either one of them. My laptop gets stuck at the
> initial motherboard screen, it gives out some text which I forgot to
> copy and then just stops.
> When set to boot from CD drive (containing a DVD with opensuse),
> instead, it just stops at the motherboard screen. Bios commands also
> don’t seem to be working.
>
> I made sure I checked:
> - the DVD I use for boot is working properly on other computers (it
> contains the official version of opensuse - 4,3 GB)
> - Ubuntu works if booted from USB
> - Opensuse does not install even if booted from USB
> - gparted works properly
>
> Has anyone had the same issue? Do you reckon it is just a matter of
> compatibility or did I really mess up bad?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
I had some problems when I had to replace a damaged 1TB drive the other
day, and then I couldn’t get Opensuse to boot. I used a KDE4 live CD with
Parted Magic and reset the MBR on both my drives, then went into the bios
and corrected which hard drive was booting. After that. everything was
fine. Also make sure of the order in which devices are booting.

Bob

OpenSuse

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Sound like a hosed MBR. I did something similar once. As I recall, booting a Win7 rescue disc, getting into the recovery console, and issuing a (if i recall right):

Bootrec /fixmbr

Should get you booting Win7 again. Then maybe give another shot at dual booting SuSE. Just an idea.