Bug 118408 - No install on (old) Siemens Motherboard
Summary: No install on (old) Siemens Motherboard
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: RC 1
Hardware: x86 SUSE Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
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Reported: 2005-09-22 15:22 UTC by Holger Petersen
Modified: 2006-01-31 16:40 UTC (History)
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Description Holger Petersen 2005-09-22 15:22:34 UTC 
On an old (2001) Siemens-MoBo with a Pentium-III @ 933 MHz 
with a Phoenix-Bios the install hangs with a black screen 
very early. 
 
A boot-parameter " edd=nombr " helps; as well as edd=off2 
 
It would be a good idea to include thos parameter in the list 
of the other 'failsave' ones?!
Comment 1 Sonja Krause-Harder 2005-09-26 10:31:07 UTC 
Certainly not a java problem.
Comment 2 Martin Lasarsch 2005-09-26 11:08:38 UTC 
Steffen: is it safe to add this to failsafe or is this to special and would 
make problems on other machines?
Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-09-26 12:02:56 UTC 
People may loose on the boot loader config, but 'failsafe' is not  
for everyone. So, fine with me.  
  
Carl-Daniel, any objections to edd=nombr?
Comment 4 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 2005-09-26 13:04:37 UTC 
Yes. That option does not exist. There are two possible parameters:
edd=skipmbr
edd=off
The second one is more drastic, but always helps. I recommend edd=skipmbr
because it should still make bootloader config possible.

Holger, can you please check whether you used edd=skipmbr or edd=nombr? If you
used the latter option, we have a problem because that should do nothing.
Comment 5 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-12 13:08:37 UTC 
please sort out the exact option name
Comment 6 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-01-31 16:28:45 UTC 
I think this is history
Comment 7 Carl-Daniel Hailfinger 2006-01-31 16:40:33 UTC 
For failsafe boot, edd=off would still be advisable,
even if we didn't receive a response from Holger. IIRC somebody else had the same problems when installing SLES on a newer Fujitsu-Siemens server.