[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem running openSUSE Live

[Chris Cox]

Russ wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Though I didn't get any replies to this email I thought I would share
> my experience.
> 
> Because I have all the time in the world, I downloaded and verified
> MD5 sums on all the downloads.  Then I did 'media check' which is the
> internal MD5 sum to check on the writes to the CD or DVD.  All the
> downloads passed or download MD5, all the DVD writes passed the media
> checks, but none of the CDs passed the media checks.
> 
> Moreover, the Live CDs would only load on a Via box and an Intel box,
> but would not load to the AMD HP-pavilion desktop.  Even playing with
> the GRUB screen parameters which was suggested to me locally, did not
> help.  The DVD, though not a Live distro, did load to the  HP.

On the boot line in addition to acpi=off, try pci=nommconf and
see if that helps.