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224 Start-Up<br />

7 Once in the YaST System Repair module, select Expert Tools then select Install<br />

New Boot Loader.<br />

8 Restore the original settings and reinstall the boot loader.<br />

9 Leave YaST System Repair and reboot the system.<br />

Other reasons for the machine not booting may be BIOS-related:<br />

BIOS Settings<br />

Check your BIOS for references to your hard drive. GRUB might simply not be<br />

started if the hard drive itself cannot be found with the current BIOS settings.<br />

BIOS Boot Order<br />

Check whether your system's boot order includes the hard disk. If the hard disk<br />

option was not enabled, your system might install properly, but fail to boot when<br />

access to the hard disk is required.<br />

9.3.2 Machine Loads GRUB Properly, but<br />

Does Not Boot into a Graphical Login<br />

If the machine comes up, but does not boot into the graphical login manager, anticipate<br />

problems either with the choice <strong>of</strong> the default runlevel or the configuration <strong>of</strong> the X<br />

Window System. To check the runlevel configuration, log in as the root user and<br />

check whether the machine is configured to boot into runlevel 5 (graphical desktop).<br />

A quick way to check this is to examine the contents <strong>of</strong> /etc/inittab, as follows:<br />

nld-machine:~ # grep "id:" /etc/inittab<br />

id:5:initdefault:<br />

nld-machine:~ #<br />

The returned line indicates that the machine's default runlevel (initdefault) is set<br />

to 5 and that it should boot to the graphical desktop. If the runlevel is set to any other<br />

number, use the YaST Runlevel Editor module to set it to 5.<br />

IMPORTANT<br />

Do not edit the runlevel configuration manually. Otherwise SuSEconfig (run by<br />

YaST) will overwrite these changes on its next run. If you need to make manual

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