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Part I ✦ SUSE Linux Basics
encounter problems during installation, and they do not seem related to
power management.
✦ Rescue System —The Rescue System enables you to correct system problems,
such as disk corruption or lost passwords, by booting from the installation
media and subsequently correcting system problems. The Rescue System is
quite a feature-rich system that you can use to load and edit filesystems, as
well as change the settings of an installed system.
✦ Memory Test—SUSE has been very kind and integrated a memory test suite
in the system boot menu. The memory test will run long and exhaustive tests
on your system’s memory and warn you of any anomalies that it encounters
on the way. We have used this a few times with systems that don’t quite seem
to be running as we expect, and it has been able to tell us that a DIMM (Dual
In-Line Memory Module) has indeed failed.
In this chapter, we select the standard Installation option in the boot menu.
SUSE has changed the original boot splash screen to be something more akin to the
Windows bootup (see Figure 1-3). While this is fine for first-time users, it is some-
thing that will infuriate hard-core Linux users. SUSE is aware this may be a problem
for some users, and pressing ESC while the system boots up will allow you to see
the kernel and init messages.
Figure 1-3: Booting SUSE installation
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