Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-testing (33 mails)

[Bayard Coolidge <n1ho@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having the same issue on Beta4, and will be updating
BZ 430284 momentarily.

Bayard

--- On Fri, 9/26/08, Holger Sickenberg <Holgi@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Holger Sickenberg <Holgi@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [opensuse-testing] Unable to boot Beta1 on my HP dv9000z
> To: "Bayard Coolidge" <n1ho@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: opensuse-testing@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2008, 3:32 AM
> Hi Bayard,
>
> > I downloaded the DVD via Ktorrent and verified the
> md5sum.
> > I am trying to install 11.1 Beta 1 onto a partition on
> my USB drive;
> > I've been successful in the past with 11.0.
> >
> > My laptop is an HP dv9000z, which is in the same
> family as the dv6000,
> > although mine has an AMD X2 64bit CPU, and NVIDIA
> graphics.
> > When I attempt to boot off of the DVD, the
> installation program (v3.3.3)
> > starts, runs udev successfully, then says
> "loading basic drivers...",
> > and then sits there. I'm not sure how long I'm
> supposed to wait, but
> > 5 minutes should have been long enough. I also
> attempted it with the
> > 'noapic' boot flag, with the same result.
> >
> > I realize that every laptop has its quirks, and in the
> past, I found that
> > stopping and starting the USB drive (to create an
> interrupt and wake
> > things up) seems to help. This time, I'm stumped.
> >
> > Anyone have a suggestion about what to do, such as a
> boot-time argument?
> > I'm not sure what "broken modules" to
> ask it to skip, although I don't
> > think I'm even getting close enough to that part
> of the installation
> > for it to consider skipping any modules.
>
> It sounds like a known problem
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=406632 which
> should be
> already fixed in Beta 1. So please file a bug report at
> http://bugzilla.novell.com/
>
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Holgi
>
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