Greetings all,

I got a copy of SuSE Linux 10.0 from a friend of mine and decided to try it. It loaded fine, detected all my settings and hardware, downloaded and installed all updates. Then I had to reboot. D'oh!

On normal boot, my computer locks up at "Starting firewall initialization (phase 1 of 2) SuSE firewall2: warning ip6tables does not support state matching. Extended IPv6 support disabled."

On safe boot, my computer locks up at "System Boot Control: Running/etc/init.d/boot.local"

Computer specs:
Compaq Presario 5834
500 Mhz Celeron
256 Meg RAM
Linux loaded next to win98

I'm a total Noob with Linux so I have no idea where to start. Any help/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Shadow

avatar is our resident linux guru.
you can wait for him to show up or you can try the following two forums:
http://www.fedoraforum.org/
http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=idx

the first one is a fedora forum. they helped me when i was getting it together with fedora.

the second is a mandriva forum, i have no experience with them.

hope this helps you out.

leo.

I have no idea what might be causing those errors. I suggest you try to copying them to a google search window and see what pops up.

If this is a problem several people have with your particular brand of Linux, chances are it will have been mentioned on a Linux forum somewhere, and somebody might be able to suggest a fix.

Hummm, I've never used SUSE, so I have no idea what caused that particular problem.
I suggest you try SUSE forums.

Normally, if IPv6 is not supported, the firewall should automatically switch to IPv4, but under no circumstances it should cause a failure to boot.

Try the steps at this link if you can get any terminal to load: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-disable-ipv6-on-fedora-linux-why/

Or, try the steps here: http://forums.suselinuxsupport.de/index.php?act=Print&client=printer&f=3&t=59777

I would not use SuSE on that box.

Try xubuntu or zenwalk.