New install. Boot keeps rebooting cpu.

I just installed SUSE to a small form factor computer. Install seemed to go okay but after I removed the CD and booted via HDD things are not going well.

I get the Grub boot screen and select either the normal boot or the fail safe boot, there are some lines of code then the screen goes blank, replaced by No Video Input ] then the Bios logo appears and the same cycle just repeats. If I leave it alone it just does this over and over without end until I manually power down.

System is small but intend only as a media server for mp3 files for my entertainment system and nothing more.

Via Micro-ITX Nehemia CPU 533 MHZ, 1BG Ram, 500GB HDD

If this was me, I would try booting from a LiveCD made from here: software.opensuse.org: Download openSUSE 12.1 and if you can not get it to work either, then openSUSE is not going to work due to some hardware issue. Further, if it does work then the first install went south for some reason, either due to the original boot disk being defective or some issue with the installation. If the LiveCD does boot and work, it can also be used to make an install. If you really have a LiveCD that boots and works, but a second install to the hard drive does not work, then there is an issue using your hard drive. For instance, a [GPT partitioned](Weiterleitungshinweis partition&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGUID_Partition_Table&ei=xCthT43-FcrI2gX5oPikCA&usg=AFQjCNEFxyqjcWIgjjtHdznKL2JeVu_C-Q&cad=rja) hard drive and/or a hard drive larger than 2.2 TB, could be the issue as the openSUSE Grub boot loader does nor work with such a hard drive partition.

Thank You,

The install was done from LiveCD so it does boot ok from that. HDD is only 500GB so disk size should not be issue. Also that disk is partitioned such that 360GB is NTFS so I can easily manage media from Windows network. I let the install partition so assume it would choose the correct formatting options to install. ( It took a long time so I would rather see if there is something in grub I can check before starting over. )

re: “Software efficiency halves every 18 months, thus compensating for Moore’s Law.

This is in direct correlation to the bloat in new versions of Microsoft Windows added to consume all the extra power !

From the liveCD run

su -
lspci -nnk

and show the output.

On 2012-03-15 14:36, paulkruger wrote:
> Also that disk is
> partitioned such that 360GB is NTFS so I can easily manage media from
> Windows network

As the operating system is Linux, that’s is irrelevant. All the other
windows machines in the network will see is samba, without really knowing
what is in the disk. You can use any other filesystem native to Linux, and
that will make Linux happier and faster.

Or told another way: You can not tell the Windows machines to apply windows
native permissions to that ntfs filesystem over the samba network. What
they will see is the permissions samba emulates regardless of the
filesystem, and those permissions are themselves emulated by the kernel
before samba sees them. Double emulation.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)