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hi everybody

I need your help!!!

I want to intall openSuse 11.2 and I don’t know how to do the partition correctly. my pc run with windows vista.
this is how I made the partition:
dev/sda1: windows
dev/sda2: linux /
dev/sda3: linux swap

After the installation openSuse don’t boot!!!

tkanks.

2

Do you mean it just boots in to windows as if SUSE was not there?

Probably you have installed Grub incorrectly

Did you use CD or DVD to install with?

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I want to intall openSuse 11.2 and I don’t know how to do the partition correctly. my pc run with windows vista.
this is how I made the partition:
dev/sda1: windows
dev/sda2: linux /
dev/sda3: linux swap

After the installation openSuse don’t boot!!!

This has nothing to do with the partitioning. Did you check the integrity of the media before installing? And what are you seeing? (“don’t boot” is a rather vague description)

4

I use a DVD to install
after the installation the pc don’t reboot itself. And it’s me who shut it down and reboot it. At the starting it show me
opensuse
failsafe
windows
it’s only windows who boot corectly

5

When you choose

opensuse: what happens - is there a message

failsafe: what happens with this? Explain anything you see.

6

Seems to me that perhaps the installation didn’t complete? Why did you manually shutdown/reboot? Sometimes the screen will go blank during installation without letting you know what’s going on, but it is in fact doing something.

I would suggest to begin the installation again (the installer should recognize the partitions from the previous attempt), but before doing so, verify that the md5sum/sha1sum of the DVD is correct.

7

when I choose opensuse or failsafe there is not a message. It began to start and it stop at
“Starting HAL daemon…done”

And it dont continue

8

I shut it down and reboot manuelly because after finished it don’t reboot itself it show me a black screen

9

but how to verify the md5sum/sha1sum of the DVD

10

Boot the dvd

http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pLqg-3BLuJMw7X342GpGRSQC__sw2xWZKa60BJytRSJU6Iw6dpefIljPQdLnxLu0q-_twYS8FTajiFNE_WeohjA/pic1-media%20check.png

11

Could you ckeck the installation DVD?

Likely the motherboard is not good, and parameters like nolapic need to be passed to kernel at installation. To find out whether this correct, some steps must be done.

Try to run live with opensuse LiveCD 32 bit.

Update the BIOS. Disconnect the unused devices, and leave one hard drive only.

12

ha okay I did it and it said that there is no error

13

Try this, only you are selecting opensuse in your grub menu, not the installation as in this screen

http://public.bay.livefilestore.com/y1pQ7GHOvXbnPVLXY5NA4eNbwS9J9v-YAokauo3UlR1dhVOEC3srFphVAQX1ry69Idb5TymKZwCMDFJIyjYiYyKpg/acpi%20boot%20arg.png

14

I did it and it sad me that there is no error

15

I think you are mixed up, look again at what I was asking. You are NOT using the DVD for this, just boot the computer and before it boots, start typing what it shows there.

16

finnaly I dropped opensuse 11.2 and I installed fedora 11 and the both (fedora and windows vista) run correctly…

But thank you trying to help me…

17

No worries.
Fedora is nice, I ran F11 too.
You know Fedora 12 is out too?