SuSe 9.1 hangs on a dual-booting Dell Inspiron
Ok people, here's my issue. After upgrading from Fedora Core 1 to FC2 and discovering the FC2 issue with nVidia cards, I decided to try a third distro. After some research, I tried SuSe 9.1 and enjoyed it very much, until...
...after playing with some settings (all minor software updates) and restarted, the boot process would hang at one point:
Loading kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
ReiserFS: hda9: found ReiserFS format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda9: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: hda9: journal params: device hda9, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda9:checking transaction log (hda9)
That is where it freezes. If I boot in Failsafe I get an additional line:
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
After several tries, I gave up. I reinstalled. Not fun considering it was a second overnight FTP install. This time, SuSe crashed and the same boot hang happened. Suspecting a reiser issue, I installed again, this time from CD, and using ext3. Thinking my problems were over, I rebooted after some configuring, and once again, the boot process hung, this time as fsck "ran" (the hard drive light was on, but the drive wasn't spinning).
I've decided I'm going to either fix it or try another distro. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
...after playing with some settings (all minor software updates) and restarted, the boot process would hang at one point:
Loading kernel/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.ko
warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory
ReiserFS: hda9: found ReiserFS format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: hda9: using ordered data mode
reiserfs: using flush barriers
ReiserFS: hda9: journal params: device hda9, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: hda9:checking transaction log (hda9)
That is where it freezes. If I boot in Failsafe I get an additional line:
spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7
After several tries, I gave up. I reinstalled. Not fun considering it was a second overnight FTP install. This time, SuSe crashed and the same boot hang happened. Suspecting a reiser issue, I installed again, this time from CD, and using ext3. Thinking my problems were over, I rebooted after some configuring, and once again, the boot process hung, this time as fsck "ran" (the hard drive light was on, but the drive wasn't spinning).
I've decided I'm going to either fix it or try another distro. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
