   | Member with 46 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Experience: Beginner | | help with installing linux pro I have a gateway lp 550 mini tower that was ruuning windows 98 on it. Anyways, sometimes when starting it up it would give an error message that no operating system was found. So I decided I wanted to give SUSE Linux Professional 7.0 a try and installed it on there with no problems. I relized I didn't put some of the free software that I wanted with the first install, so I uninstalled it and started with the new install and now when I boot up with the Linux cd it says YaST2 is loading setup then it comes back with an red error box stating an error occured click OK and it won't go any further. I even went and used fdisk to delete the old partitions and create new ones and formatted the new ones. I also tried to go back to installing 98 back on it but it won't go no further than copying files phase for setup. Any help on this problem would be much appreciated. Thanks inadvance. |  | Distinguished Member with 15,988 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Experience: Advanced | | If neither Windows nor Linux work, I'd say there could be a hardware problem with the hard drive.
Is there any way you can switch in a hard drive from a working computer and see if that boots? | | | Distinguished Member with 3,364 posts. | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: West Texas Experience: n00b | | If neither OS will load and you are getting similiar errors then I would suspect the HD is going bad. If SuSE went on the first time then the disk should be good. I would try fdisk again with a Win98 floppy and see if I got any HD errors.
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Registered Linux user #385997 | | | Member with 46 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Experience: Beginner | | i ran scandisk and it came up with no hd errors | | | Distinguished Member with 15,988 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Experience: Advanced | | Could be a BIOS problem then. Are you able to get into the BIOS? This is usually done by repeatedly pressing a certain key as the computer starts (F2, F8, F10, or DEL, depending on the computer.) | | | Member with 46 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Experience: Beginner | | can get into bios with no trouble. | | | Distinguished Member with 15,988 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ann Arbor, MI Experience: Advanced | | Ok, is there an option to reset BIOS settings to default?
If so, try that and reboot. | | | Member with 46 posts. | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Experience: Beginner | | chkdisk results had no bad clusters or errors with the hd. do you think I may have used fdisk wrong maybe? should i just start the fdisk process all over again. | | | Senior Member with 1,513 posts. | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Experience: I've been at this for too long. | | Check your drive jumpers. One not-uncommon problem is to have two IDE drives on the same channel jumpered the same, or one or the other with missing jumpers.
One must be master, the other slave. If they aren't right, you'll get symptoms similar to what you are seeing. |  THIS THREAD HAS EXPIRED.
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