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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Suse on an EeePC (still)
From:       John Layt <johnlayt () yahoo ! com ! au>
Date:       2008-08-03 20:53:11
Message-ID: 200808032153.11658.johnlayt () yahoo ! com ! au
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On Sunday 03 August 2008, Neil wrote:
> Hello
>
> First some background: I was trying to get Suse on my EeePC a while
> back, but crashed as the CD I used didn't have Make, so I couldn't
> install the Madwifidrivers and so I couldn't get the network active
> and thus couldn't install make....(see this thread:
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2008-07/msg00537.html)
> The following site was suggested:
> http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_on_the_EeePC . I tried the first
> version since it promises to boot without an USB stick and that is
> exactly what I want.
> I tried it and had the following problem: When booting from USB the
> Eee posts "GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB" and so forth on the screen (just
> like 10 echo "GRUB" 20 goto 10" would do).
>
> Does annywone have an idea what this could possibly mean?
>
> Thanks for your time
>
> Neil

Hi Neil,

Can't help you with the GRUB error, but just to confirm that I do have 
openSuse 11.0 installed on my eee using the bootable USB stick method and 
appelonkel repos, no compiling needed.  Works smooth as.

John.


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