Re: [LUG] powering up funny ....

[Grant Sewell <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Haha!  I have sorted my email woes, so I can at last re-join the LUG!

Unfortunately, the only time I have had problems such as this is when I was using 
drives set up as Cable Select rather than properly Master/Slaved.

Grant.

> I have just loaded SUSE 9.0 on my server box - replacing the 6 distro
> multiboot system I had been using to evaluate the major LINUX offerings (one
> of which was in fact SUSE 9.0). 
>
> There were no problems whatsoever with starting/closing this multiboot system.
>
> SUSE appears to run and behave as expected and shuts down as it should.
>
> However, when next reloading the system, the BIOS gets as far as checking
> NVRAM and freezes. It can only be cleared by disconnecting the power lead
> for a few seconds.
>
> I know BIOS is not specifically related to the OS, but it seems likely to me
> that the OS is affecting the reload as everything was fine before. Very
> strange.
>
> I have made no hardware changes at all - nothing has even been disconnected and 
> reconnected.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this??  Any thoughts???
>
> Cheers
>
> David
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