suSe 9.0 boot & shutdown prob.

[777JR]

I installed suSe on my new Shuttle XPC system with a 2.4c pentium some times when I start the machine the grub runs then the screen goes blank. then I push reset and it will reboot fine . the system runs very well . all hardware was detected. 1/2 of the time it will finish boot with no problems. anyone got any ideas?:(

[mdwatts]

Have you tried pressing 'F2' during the boot process so you can see what is going on?

Next time you successfully boot, have a look at your system logfiles to see (the failed boot timestamp) if you can find any cause to the problem.

The logfiles are in /var/log with the main one being /var/log/messages.

[777JR]

It does not even get to the suSe boot screen it just goes blank after Grub.:(

[mdwatts]

You could try adding some boot/kernel options at the commandline (bottom of Grub boot screen) as it could be failing on acpi, apic, dma etc.

Some are

ide=nodma
disableapic

Doesn't SuSE's Grub give you the 'Failsafe' option? Mine does and has all those boot/kernel options enabled.

Since you said you can still boot eventually, did you check those logfiles? You need to do some investigating yourself as we cannot access your system to troubleshoot.